If a machine is broken do you fix it or sit around and talk about what you want it to do for you?

Civics must be as important if not more so than sports and entertainment. Our daily living is contingent upon our overall vigilance in maintaining the integrity of of our political structure.
It is sad that our sytem does not encourage and teach people to have meaningful conversations with one another.
Ron Paul proposes to go back to the basics where the people have more power and the govment corruption is limited by the size. We now have a country that is ran by corporations and bankers, not the people! We the people only receive what is necessary to keep us from revolting, and this is ever so slowly be decreased as the conditioning of the masses continues.

There little point in voting for a candidate that stands for the same things as you, if that candidate will be unable to accomplish what they are talking about doing.
Our sytem is not set up to represent the people therefore we must first change the sytem before worrying about our own bias.

Very well said. I decided to never vote again since George W has been elected. He can't even speak proper english and has to be the least intellectual human being I have ever seen in politics. Yet this moron won presidency!

I love it when people say crap like:
"If you don't vote, you don't count"
BS, garbage, whatever!
If you do vote, you don't count either! And you lose an hour or so of your life. Not worth it in my opinion.

I could write a book on my personal philosophies. I actually gotta go tibet (to bed, get it - ha ha).

What I love about writing is your intelligence and demeanor are openly displayed.

I look at your question and I see it has negative undertones. Well guess what? I am the same exact way. Look at the undertones of my answer.

I had fun with this question.
I probably did not help you much, cause I went off on a tirade (notice how self reflective I am). Well maybe I gotta your mind thinking a little bit like you did for me.

First examine what you compared it to. As far as machines and preventive maintenence we are stuck in the past. Run it till it drops,we need production. In reality that is is crazy. A little downtime and maintenence can prevent a major problem that will cost more money,production and downtime. We are stuck in that mindset for the most part and politics are no different. We can't hear the whining bearing because the dollar signs deafen us .