Hurricane Bristol

 (I should make another apology, to Jimmy Fallon. I have not really watched a lot of his performances so I cant really say he is horrible. The few sketches I have seen, he did ruin. My criticisms have been the rehashing of other people's complaints. He came up with the title of this blog post on his show)

Dancing with the “Stars” proves so much about the dangers of direct democracy and America in general.

Direct Democracy: This is when the people vote on laws directly, instead of electing representatives to then vote on laws. The problem with direct democracy is that people vote on laws directly. First, people over-all are not informed enough on certain issues to make reasonable decisions. Second, people are easily swayed by emotions, so things like “showing images of bloody fetuses to sway abortion” makes people forget about common sense and throw reason to the wind. Finally, people are selfish and short-sighted, only thinking of themselves and not always the common good. California has experimented with direct democracy by putting most issues like taxes and spending to a vote by the public. The result: a huge deficit and debt as people routinely voted for tax cuts (or opposed tax hikes) while voting for more spending in healthcare, education, and other social services. A classic example of “the tragedy of the commons”. We need politicians to make those decisions for us. They should be more informed to make those choices and votes.

Most people who watch Dancing with the “Stars” know very little about dancing. This is why we have the judges; three people who are very knowledgeable on dancing. Unfortunately, the masses also vote, and through some stupid calculations, can outweigh the judge’s votes. This is how untalented media whores like Bristol Palin has made it this far. She has constantly been ranked at the bottom but has made it to the finals, beating out much more talented people. This brings me to my next point:

Popularity contest: All throughout School, life has been a popularity contest. The popular kids who are dumb as a brick win the elections and then spend the class budget on balloons for the first dance. In the real world, the a-hole who sucks up to the boss gets the promotion, even if he can’t even button his own shirt. Dancing with the “Stars” is a popularity contest; talent is not required. Bristol Palin is coasting by simply because her stupid bitch of a mother has a cult following. Bristol can now advocate two things; “Have unprotected sex and get famous!” and “Having a famous name will make you succeed, despite your lack of effort or skills!”

Some lame conservative radio commenter’s with a Palin fetish have found that ABC does not verify your email address when registering to vote. You can seriously put in something@nothing.com and it will accept it (as Microsoft Word has done).

You know what? I think it is good that voter turnout for presidential elections is about 50%. That means that the half of Americans that do care are voting and the other half that don’t care don’t vote. People think that voting is a joke as in with Dancing with the “Stars” and American Idol. Compulsory voting in real elections will get us people like Bristol Palin and Sanjaya Malakar.

We should all vote next week against Bristol. Do what those losers without a life do, stuff the ballot box. GET HER OFF THE SHOW! Some might think I have an unhealthy vendetta against her (like how people have an unhealthy devotion to her). Because of what she represents, this is not unhealthy. It is our duty to take down these people and reduce them to the crap in which they are. They are destroying America, now let us destroy them.

Geeze, who put a bee in my bonnet?