I find it funny how this polarization between candidates and voters causes people to ignore the fact that neither candidate would be effective. Maverick and change will be like the plague for verbal discourse a year from now. (And hey, if either of them does something significantly positive in the long-term, I will eat my words)

Many people get caught up in the typical Democrat vs. Republican fight, and it fools them into choosing along politically correct (while at the same time deceptively politically incorrect) paradigms. Those paradigms are essentially personified when people take them up, thus they feel those ideas are their own from original, deductive reasoning.

More and more people fail to think for themselves, they need the political machine to tell them what is important. There is always an agenda, always a bias. However, that does not mean we need to be suckered into thinking those ideas are our only options. I am not preaching to 'think outside the box' - most people do not know what the box is or where it came from, and that's the problem. People just know its there, and they don't need to think on their own because there are preconceived thought processes that steer those very mindsets to certain areas, whether thinking outside of it or not.

I am simply saying many people need to look at their lives and rethink what is really going on around them. Instead, all I see are millions of people depending on the machine (government, heavily filtered news, pundits, etc) to make them feel safe, in the sense of thinking we make a difference when we listen to their crap, for lack of a better term.

That is all.