we filled in and dropped off our ballots.....

[skyking]

So that means the commercials won't be playing on our TV, right?

 

[hal2kilo]

So that means the commercials won't be playing on our TV, right?

Should have bought stock in advertising agencies. They must be booming, soon they'll be back to bust though when the Republicans start their austerity plan to balance the budget in the middle of a deep recession and there's no money in circulation.

 

[boomerang]

Should have bought stock in advertising agencies. They must be booming, soon they'll be back to bust though when the Republicans start their austerity plan to balance the budget in the middle of a deep recession and there's no money in circulation.

Or...more than likely, life will go on.

Just think how great it will be to have the people you blame for all our problems actually holding office. You know you gonna be likin' it way plenty.

 

[MovingTarget]

Perhaps we should just ban TV advertising of politics altogether and just revert back to good old fashioned stump speeches and letters to the editor.

I can't wait until Wed morning.

 

[skyking]

I do know this election cycle has exercised my mute button more than any before it.

 

[Generator]

This thread is a perfect example of what citizenship means to your typical American. Just a series of annoying commercials that begrudgingly makes them go to some poll. The sad thing is, in this country this guy is actually considered responsible.

 

[Engineer]

This thread is a perfect example of what citizenship means to your typical American. Just a series of annoying commercials that begrudgingly makes them go to some poll. The sad thing is, in this country this guy is actually considered responsible.

Most of the commercials are annoying. They are mostly (by a large margin) negative and spew lies and only small clips to conveniently throw out their point of view). Just how many ads go 100% on what the candidate has done well? This has been the worst political season that I can remember and I for one, am glad that these mother fuckers will be off the air soon (only to start again in about a year sadly).

 

[Generator]

If it wasn't for the commercials the dumb fucks wouldn't even know there was a vote to be had. If politics for you is a series of shitty commercials a few weeks before some Tuesday than that is pathetic. What really scares me though is the idea that there was ever useful information to educate a voter...

Anyways thanks voting, you can go back to wiping shit off your face.

 

[Engineer]

If it wasn't for the commercials the dumb fucks wouldn't even know there was a vote to be had. If politics for you is a series of shitty commercials a few weeks before some Tuesday than that is pathetic. What really scares me though is the idea that there was ever useful information to educate a voter...

Anyways thanks voting, you can go back to wiping shit off your face.

Yes, your highness.

Politics for most are voting down a party line ticket, hook line and sinker. Doesn't matter what your side does or is...as long as they win.

Both major political parties are full of shit and spout it in every way possible for us to see for months. Sorry, but that's the way it is whether you like it or not.

 

[Craig234]

Yes, your highness.

Politics for most are voting down a party line ticket, hook line and sinker. Doesn't matter what your side does or is...as long as they win.

Both major political parties are full of shit and spout it in every way possible for us to see for months. Sorry, but that's the way it is whether you like it or not.

I agree with you on one thing:

The current political system, filled with big special interest money, buying sophisticated marketing organizations, who smother the public through the media, in a major industry making billions, is a sophisticated institutionalized attack on democracy - activities that prevent the intended purpose of democracy for people to make any 'rational' choices, but instead to force servants of the agenda of the powerful onto the people as their 'choice'.

There's no more information in these marketing commercials than their is information on the health tradeoffs between water and Pepsi in Pepsi commercials.

They are, simply, buying elections, which gives the wealthy the very political power democracy intended to remove from them with the vote - pre-media days.

I disagree with you that it's so much about voting for one party - not that I'm attacking that, if it's the correct party and deserves the vote - but because no party has a monopoly on power by having those votes, every election turns on voters who might go one way or the other (some of our worst voters, perhaps, but nonetheless not the people who vote one party).

I also don't agree with the 'parties are the same' bit, but we don't need to go into that here.

 

[Engineer]

I also don't agree with the 'parties are the same' bit, but we don't need to go into that here.

Didn't say they were both the same, just both full of shit. :biggrin: