The media does show what people want, yes. I don't blame the media for anything. People want to hear everything there is to hear about politics in two minutes and be done with it. If that. It's just not possible to make a good decision based upon a political commercial, or a "debate" of the sort that we broadcast on TV. Politicians know that people have short attention spans and knee-jerk voting reactions, so they blindly spew one-sentence catchy phrases at the public, in a sort of shot-gun effect, hoping to do as much widespread damage as possible; if they miss a few people, or a few cities, or a few states, who cares?

I don't think there's any way anything is going to change, short of something which forces us to change. Another world war maybe. When 9/11 happened things changed, for like 3 months, remember? Remember Congress sitting on the steps of a building in Washington and singing a song together? Look where we are now. Getting our buildings exploded by terrorists isn't enough to change anything; if it takes more than that to change things, I don't think change is something I'd look forward to.