Yes, just plain forget to think.

We Americans are being manipulated. And we don't even know it. Political and advertising campaigns are designed to make us buy. A product. A candidate. Very cleverly. Mostly in 30-second sound bites. The idea isn't to make us think. Rather just the opposite. To make us do things unconsciously. Like robots. My guess is that many of the electorate have been turned into zombies. They march to the polls. And do as instructed. As programmed. By the manipulators. So many, many voters vote in ways that don't make sense. Against their own self-interests. That's possible, of course. When they are programmed not to think. Take Hillary Clinton supporters, for instance. The ones that have switched allegiance to John McCain and Sarah Palin. Doesn't make a bit of sense. McCain and Palin oppose virtually everything meaningful that Clinton ever stood for. But these one-time Clinton backers have been programmed to vote for a woman -- no matter what the cost. Maybe it's an emotional thing. The candidate can be a man disguised as a woman. That's all it takes. Someone that looks like a woman. Yes, we've reached that point in the United States of America. We even have voters who won't vote for a black man. Because he's black. No other reason. Forget the issues. Yes, just plain forget to think. --Jim Broede