Politics the MySpace Way

I think the best response to this article over at Reuters is, "Noooo!" Apparently, MySpace and Mark Burnett are teaming up to create a new reality show that focuses on creating a politician that represents the young people of America. This has got to be one of the worst idea ever. Lets be honest, the youth in America are a bunch of idiots. On top of this, the part of the article I found most frightening is this part.

The process begins with the close to 100 million unique users who flirt, discuss and attack each other on Rupert Murdoch's online social network MySpace. Those people decide the winner, the losers and their issues on the new show.

That is good thinking. Let the same morons that have five videos load on their page at once and post pictures of themselves in their underwear decide who a good candidate is. I take that back, they probably could pick a good candidate to represent them, but the thing that is bad is that they also get to pick the issues? Do we really need that? If you know me personally, you know that I hate MySpace with a passion. I've gone so far as to not just boycott the site, but actually have the myspace.com domain blocked on my hardware firewall. The thought that these same people are going to be picking someone to represent them is repulsive. Older people already see my generation as a bunch of degenerates (which most are, but that is true of the older generations too), do we really need to just reinforce this? I can hardly wait to see what kind of idiot they wind up picking. I could just be exposed to the wrong groups of young people, but I seem to just encounter a lot of complainers without anyone ever offering realistic alternatives. Even when they complain about things with which I agree I still think they look like idiots. Things will be nice once we finally install my friend into office. Doty in 2032, baby.