Seeing the ways students promote themselves in a student body election this week has really opened my eyes.
For instance, one candidate boasts that she has a pink toothbrush...
However, anyone can get one of those, they aren't rare. If thats our basis for voting than Obama should fill his bathroom full of pink toothbrushes!
Anyone of her opponents could also own a pink toothbrush! What makes her pink toothbrush superior to my orange and blue one? At least mine has a complementary color scheme! Those toothbrush makers put a little more thought into my toothbrush, I should run for student body office!
I know I shouldn't be worried about these school elections, they wont effect me, I'm a senior. But I'm worried for our youth! Their future high school activities could be run and planned by people who care only for the race of one's toothbrush!
What happened to caring about our SBO's character? Their people skills? Their ability to handle stress? Last year I wanted a SBOs who could relate to all sorts of people, regardless of what color they like to clean their teeth with!
Not only am I worried for the future Vikings, but maybe this election reflects what is really going on in the world. Do we care more about things that shouldn't matter in an election (ex: ones race, sex or religion)? Or do we simply not care at all? Are we more distracted and effected by the next American Idol (which receives more votes than our elections do, coincidently) than we are by our future president; the person that is supposed to represent the people in our country?!
Maybe Jordin Sparks should be our next president, but don't forget to check out her toothbrush first।
-Cassi Githens
Monday, March 10, 2008
What color is YOUR toothbrush?
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Cassie, everything you brought up is just evidence of how vacuous and nihilistic high school elections are, and how stupid (would "simple-minded" be a nicer word?) and impressionable much of the electorate is (it may actually be worse in the big adult elections of the real world). The candidates themselves at least subconsciously understand this, and they go along with it, possibly mockingly, by using such empty advertising, instead of addressing worthwhile matters. A sense of humor has evolved to become more relevant to our future (both school and nation, among others) than judgment and intelligence...sad, but true.
Thanks, Adam, for restating everything I said with bigger words. :)
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