Popularity Contest

This is the problem with popular election in America

It's a superficial popularity contest:

• it requires no critical assessment of pros and cons toward some purpose.
• you don't need to be qualified in any way to make decisions.
• it does not require any knowledge or rational thinking from you.
• it's choosing based on emotions
• there's no wrong answer; your opinion is always right
• it's like a jury where they want you to be as ignorant as possible and swayable to their arguments and propaganda

and most importantly,

• it has no validity in determining who is the best candidate for some purpose

merit, competence, and ability
are independent of popularity
the deciding factors are
hype, attention, and sensationalism

The message we send to our children

We should not be teaching children 'which is YOUR favorite', like how you feel is so important that your opinion ought to beat someone else's. As if your emotions and opinions are the most-important-thing-in-the-world - deciding who is cool.

Who do you LIKE?
Congratulations, you are correct!
If you feel the SAME as everyone else, then you WIN!

It should be about which hero makes HIS community BETTER for EVERYONE, hero A or hero B, and name one thing he does to show that.

Oh, but that's HARD, that's like taking a test, that's not FUN or SENSATIONAL for kids so they won't want to do it. They get their cultural cues from television and commercials and marketing that's geared towards them getting what they want. whine.

We shouldn't let shopping malls and TV raise our kids because that's easier for us. We shouldn't have to pander to what children WANT because merchandisers tell them to; we have a RESPONSIBILITY of teaching them what is RIGHT.