The Biggest Factor

The biggest factor in the American election this year was highly underestimated by the media, that factor was faith based morals. The media is sponsored by for-profit corporations, who at all costs like to stay away from these three keys; religious morality, spiritual awareness, and good deeds done by some saying "God told them to do it." This is because sex and violence are used to sell their sponsor’s products and those three keys undermine their sales. This is the reason we only see religious activities associated with violence and when some mass murderer says "God told him to do it" the story tops the head lines followed by how he lured them in with bizarre bondage sex therapy. Aren’t you interested already?

"You can make a good case that the biggest divide in this country is between religionists and secularists (and I hope those are fair terms). As long as the religionists view certain voting issues as moral issues (eg, abortion and gay marriage), they'll have a massive advantage in getting out the vote. They voted down every gay marriage referendum in this election, and voted for Bush while they were at it."
Sean Meade

This quote is 100% true. The issue however, is far greater that anyone may understand. Or maybe it is that the corporations do understand. The corporate sales department would have to completely destroy religious foundation of history to get around these religious moral issues. Would an email connected group of sales gurus actually derive a plan to weaken the moral foundation of the country just to make money? It may seem a little farfetched at first, but let’s combine that connected ability to influence media coverage by sponsorship and donations along with a belief that “Separation of Church and State” extends to all publicly owned or viewable areas i.e. parks, sidewalks, billboards, just basically anything not inside your house out of public view. Is this an organized group of people doing these things on purpose? Probably not, this a "take a step back from the situation" view of things.

The main idea is that small tweaks here and there add up to a very big change in the social fabric of our country. We may not live in a Rockwell painting, but just because very few people are attaining that perfect picturesque life these days doesn’t mean we should lower the bar just to raise the success quota and feel good about ourselves.

-Silent