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[Zythryn]

Many ideals are easy to agree with. A lot depends upon marketing though as we yanks are a consumer driven society.
For example, if you ask 1000 people that live along a section of river "Are you concerned that tens of thousands of gallons of industrial waste are dumped into the river upstream from you" you will get a largely positive answer to 'are you concerned about river polution'
Then another survey taker asks "Would you want food to become scarce due to not allowing poor farmers along the river to use fertilizer, which helps plants thrive, on their crops" you will get a largely negative answer which you then summarize as 'are you concerned about riveer polution'

And, as Mike C has brought up numerous times, and one of the few areas I agree with him on, money buys elections in the USA. If you can spin enough issues as the above in 30 second comercials you sway enough of the voters to get elected. Allowing ONLY public money and the same amount of money for each canidate would go a long way to putting things back on track.

Also remember, Bush was only elected by a little under half of the people that actually voted (51.3%). So Bush was first elected by about a quarter of the population that was of voting age.