The race to rule the kingdom of fools.

i was thinking for a while recently about changing my major to political science and, seeing my country in a full-speed spiral down the s*** hole and wanting to change it, becoming a politician. my initial concern came from the fact that i'm a bad liar, i don't do cocaine, and i can't(as my hero john lennon put it) "smile as i kill."
after some more serious deliberation over the past month or so i've come to a new consensus. even if i was a politician i would never get elected into office anyway. just consider the current presidential race: the only politican with an upstanding record and moral foothold is Ron Paul and he's not even getting considered as a serious contender. but even paul is not someone i put a large deal of faith behind. i thought about why this is, that all these other sleezy candidates are geting all the votes, and i realized and maybe it was something george carlin said to me last night as i was listening to his complaints and grievances cd. it went something like: the reason politicians suck is because of the system we have in america (refering to education, popular culture, the media) garbage in garbage out, or something to that effect.
but the truth is, there is not some internal flaw i'm missing, the caucases and primaries aren't necessarily (although they may be) subject to voting fraud. the truth is that that i'm the flaw. the typical american citizen is perfectly represented by any one of the candidates in this election, because the typical american is apathetic, and too busy hunting down the american dream and paying off huge loads of cyclic debt, to have time to think for themselves and study something beyond what FOX vomits onto their living room floors each day.
as a friend said to me the other day "some people just don't want to know this stuff." and it's true, americans are so caught up in their 9 to 5's and trying to provide for their families, doped up on perscription drugs, and completely oblivious to real things going on around them, that there is an overwhelming sense of apathy in america..
however i don't believe that the entire population is to blame. i would be willing to bet as much as 40% of the population would be willing to do something about the current state of affairs in the country and educate themselves about it in order to act. but in a democracy (this is a democracy right?? ....well it used to be anyway) in a democracy 40% is not the majority, not even close. people like myself are the minority. most people just don't care. the next president of this once great nation will be representing some really stupid people. i have just about given up my "hope for america" as obama's campaign promises. the people that own this country have it in such a tight grip at this point i don't think it can be reversed. i just hope i can finish my undergrad work here, then i'm off to Canada, and i may never return. my hope for america is that one day i can, and we can prove ourselves a truly great nation by proving democracy can last more than 200 years.