The Dewmocracy.
Right now voters can choose which flavor will become the next permanent member of the Mountain Dew family. The choices are Whiteout, Typhoon, and Distortion.
If you look at the map below you’ll see the current success of each of the flavors.
Now, take a closer look.
There’s only one state backing the nastiest flavor and that’s Oklahoma. Oh Oklahoma. My theory is that the people of our beloved pan-handle state simply chose the “green one” because they thought it was to choose whether or not Mountain Dew stays in business. Oh well, simple things for simple minds in simple places I suppose. Way to make a statement.
Regardless, White Out (aka the best one) is doing strong and I encourage all of you to go and vote. Voting ends June 14th.
The one thing I have to admit while getting caught up with Dew Fever (not an actual flavor) is that they should carry this process over to how we vote for everything else.
If you think about it, when looking at the people that don’t vote in our country it stems from one of two reasons: they’re too lazy or they don’t think their vote counts. The first group of people should be deported to Bangladesh or some other remote, third world country but I can understand why the second group seems so jaded.
With the fact that it our electoral colleges that summarize the vote sometimes it’s very valid to know that because of where you live, if you’re vote wasn’t the popular, it gets dismissed. Knowing you live in a republican state as a democrat can be disappointing. Knowing you live WITH a republican and that you’re vote will cancel out with your household partner can just be infuriating.
It’s a shame when they look at the popular vote and only use it as a reference for well… popularity. All these checks and balances really just unhinge our potential to become a republic and not this hybrid we have now.
The reason I even bring it up though is because we have never been in a better place to switch to this kind of system. Think of all the excess spending we would either reduce or cut completely if we got rid of the middle management that evaluates the voting process.
Maybe the security systems aren’t set in place to have a voting app for our iPhones, but at the polling centers having hard drives that just tally our counts would save a lot of people from adding up and checking chads.
It’s just silly that we finally have the technology to have the smallest voice heard and we don’t utilize it to impact and effect real change.
Anyways, I’m starting to rant, the main focus here is the Dewmocracy.
Just go Dew it. (like that? Yeah you did.)
