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I love George Carlin, but I don't draw a lot of political opinions from his humor! It's easy to pick villains by using "they" and "them", because it's vague. Vote the bums out. The problem really is that everyone hates someone else's representative.

I guess if you want to take something away from that Carlin video, it'd be that people are lazy. If people did more political research before voting, we could be in a lot better shape. But instead, people (myself included more than I'd like) make their voting choices based on either A) political affiliation alone or B) political ads. People don't spend enough time to really think about critical issues because they're boring--they'd rather read reviews about the new XBox, or the new iPhone or whatever. It's no fun to seriously considering farm subsidies, pension funding for people you don't know, etc.




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