It has been two years and election time is finally here again. “Yes” and “No” campaigns for propositions as well as ads for the candidates and their varying positions in government offices have filled the airwaves.

In the last presidential election only 20 million people voted for the President of the United States. But for the same year’s “American Idol,” 50 million people voted for Clay Aiken.

That means if we ran Aiken for President we would get more people in the voting booths. Unfortunately, the founding fathers never promised that politics would be as fun or as interesting as a game show.

Slowly we as a public are fading out in our only constitutional responsibility. Voting was the only thing that the founding fathers thought we could handle, and today were not even doing that.

Yes, I know the pickings for these offices are a choice between Forrest Gump and Oscar the Grouch.

But we are the ones to blame because we keep putting these people into office.

Take New Orleans. They voted that joke of a mayor back into office and now they are shocked that there is no plan to clean up the city or get it back on its feet. But what is great about our system of government is that if you don’t like who is running for office, you can get off your butt and run for office, too. I vote to complain, mainly because the people I like never make it anywhere. I cry after every election when I see who is elected to office.

Take Governor Schwarzenegger. This year I am going to have to hold my nose as I vote for the Golly Green Governator Schwarzenegger because Angelides would take California down like it was a submarine. I, like a lot of people, end up voting for the lesser of two evils.

In the end you keep asking why any one should care about all of this political mess. Well I can only say that these are the people that will rule over you and things that affect you. From home to work, they make all the rules that guide every thing you do.

Again, look at New Orleans. They voted for people that were inept and didn’t care about what happened to anyone.

They failed because when you don’t vote you show those that are put into office that you don’t care about how or what they do.

A non-vote tells all that you can’t be bothered with how things are run. The consequence is that politicians will run things their way, not yours.