One other quick issue for discussion [View All]

I got into another disagreement this evening about how the Dems can change their fate. Everyone has an opinion but no one really wants to hear that maybe Kerry really won and that maybe where we need to concentrate our energy is on election reform. Though most people believe it is needed, they do not seem to think it is any more important than platform, or moving more to the middle, or moving more to the left. My spouse believes that America is so used to being spoon-fed in sound bites that they do not have the attention span for anything else - and therefore any message the Dems are trying to get out needs to be able to fit into little 30-60 second time slot.

I agree with this to some extent, but if the problem is vote reform and we do not tackle that first, little else will matter (IMO). But there is no way of explaining why vote reform is so essential in 30-60 seconds, is there? As I pointed out to him, I have a hard time even getting him to listen to or read anything about this. No one seems to want to spend the time and I feel people find my relentless pounding on this subject tiresome.

I feel most Americans have created such incredibly busy lives that they have chosen the quickest and easiest ways of staying "informed". Unfortunately those ways are leaving out some possibly very serious concerns they need to be paying attention to. How are we ever going to change this? Is there a genius out there somewhere that can fit what has happened into a 30-60-90 second time frame to build up the force of believers?