The Final US Election Thread

[Lemur]

Why do all of these politicians always try to represent the "common man" or try to seem like "Joe the Plumber."

It's just one of those quirks of democracy. You know in your head that the leadership should be comprised of the best and the brightest, but hey, aren't they kinda smug? Aren't they a lot like that egghead kid in class who always knew the answers and raised his hand before everybody else and went to a good college? And don't you kinda hate those elitist bastards?

That's how we wind up with either

1. Smart people who pretend to be folksy and common, or,
2. Genuinely ignorant anti-intellectuals

Sadly, the fakes are the better option here. (Examples: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama.)

The genuinely ignorant, incurious and common are just kind of ... whatever. They're great on your church charity board, but you really, really don't want the nation taking marching orders from them.

Or maybe you do.

(That video is insane, isn't it? What's tjhe story with the gay black Amish man thanking Sarah Palin for the "dignity she showed"?)