Saturday, September 25, 2010

Voters: The Horror Movie

by Russ Baker from Who What Why

He is very perplexed and, I guess, a bit horrified to see voters taking such contradictory positions on issues. 
Why are so many people inclined to either inaction or to support for positions that are at odds with their own interests? The answer, in all probability, is what it always is — a very clever effort, funded by exactly those few who stand to gain — to confuse, distract, discourage and disenfranchise the majority so it ends up giving away an opportunity to fix its own state of affairs.
Guess who those "few who stand to gain" are?