So, today is election day and its going to go to Obama. So congratulations to him but in the extreme off chance that it doesn't I'll still be happy. The reason is that the worst president in the history of the United States will finally be gone. Yes i know that it will be a few more months until he is officially gone but today feels like the day that the guillotine will drop onto the neck of this horrid administration.
Now there are many fuck ups that can be attributed to the Bush administration but one that especially angers me is the way that they have treated the education system. The United States spends more per capita on education than any other country in the world and yet we have one of the worst education systems in the western world. Why is that? Some would say that the Bush administration is incompetent or that they frankly don't care due to the exorbant amounts of money being made off of the war.
The scary truth is that the government is getting exactly what is ordered. The republican party leaders do better when their base is less educated. The dumber you are the more they love you. Ever since Harvey Atwater helped Reagan and Bush senior develop the strategies of attacking the character of the opposing candidate, the republican base has shifted to the most ignorant people in America (Don't believe me? Look here). Any well informed populace would recognize that the issues raised by these tactics have no merit and should be ignored. A well informed populace would have never been tricked into the war that we are currently unable to escape.
So its no surprise that the Bush administration would have interest in creating an ignorant populace or at the very least a mis-informed populace. Whether or not you believe that Fox News is biased or not you cannot deny in any way that it is only interested in misleading and misinforming the population as seen here).
This is why you cannot trust your schools or the mainstream media to educate you on what is really happening in our world. All the major media outlets are publicly owned and operated by a handful of elite individuals. Their alliegance is to the share holders not to the American public. Their interests lie in the profitibility of their company not in the responsilibty of journalism.
I hope that a new administration will take it upon themselves to change these failing systems for the better. This among other reasons is why I'm so excited to see someone who is interested in the welfare of the American populace enter the white house for a change.
