RE: An Informed Citizenry

[Rod Cameron <rodcm@aol.com>]

Byron,

Your point about the importance of an informed citizenry strikes at the heart of this issue.  Yes, I would answer.  If citizens were well informed and thoughtful and civic minded, the impact of money on politics would be greatly diminished.  So the next question is:  "How might citizens become better informed?"  We rely so much upon the press, radio, televisio, and the internet for information.  But even with all those sources, trustworthy, accurate, reliable, and timely information is not always easily accessible or decipherable for the average Joe.  As a result, voters short cut the information highway by taking their chances on the information outback trails of candidate ads.  Thus we come back to the role of money.