The American electorate is singularly ignorant and uninformed about how their government is run.

They are certainly not told about the true state of affairs in the mainstream media. 
90% of the mainstream media is owned by just 6 large Corporations. 
All of the main TV stations and papers put out the agenda of these 6 large Corporations (and their main advertisers).

The electorate are given the illusion of choice when both the main parties support large Corporate interests over ordinary Americans. 

The owners of mainstream media have done a great job of polarising the electorate over relatively trivial issues. GE don't care one way or the other about abortion. 

Unless you research a little on the net you will never get a decent picture of what goes on. 

Even the Russians under communism were more informed about how their government was being run and current events than Americans are about their government today.

30 years ago 90% of mainstream media was owned by 53 companies. 
There were at least some good TV News journalists who reported a realistic picture of current events. 
People like Walter Kronkite. Now there are none. 

You will never get another war reported on like Vietnam was. 
The mainstream media has been locked down by the large Corporations.


I agree with Noam Chomsky about the current state of affairs in politics and the mainstream media :-

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-smart-way-to-keep-people-passive.html

An analysis of Corporate media and current journalism

How the American public was turned into willing victims of Corporate greed.

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/journalists-are-easy-to-con.html

If you doubt the substantive truth of this, Corporate profits are at record levels, while median real wages are back at the levels of 1970 and poverty is rising dramatically. Look at the numbers now on food stamps.

ALL of the over $1tn of annual Corporate Welfare was retained while the middle class and poor got a huge $200bn annual tax hike in the fiscal cliff deal.

The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer as a result of the fiscal cliff deal.
Exacerbating the largest disparity in incomes since the late 1920's.