(Satire) Political Attention Deficit Disorder - New Psychiatric Condition

[tbyg52]

Published June 30, 2007

According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and widespread affliction of Americans be officially declared a psychiatric disorder. Called the Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD), it's recommended that the malady be included in a widely used mental illness manual created and published by the American Psychiatric Association. The current manual was published in 1994; the next edition is to be completed in 2012. The benefit to people so classified is health insurance coverage.

"The symptoms of PADD are all around us, and treating it professionally can do more for our country than any election," said Dr. Mable Wank in the report's introduction; she is chairwoman of the Council and a professor at UCLA.

Here are the Council's main findings on PADD:

Nearly 80 percent of adult American citizens are unable to pay sustained attention to issues and problems associated with their government. They are unable to accept their responsibility as citizens, including their obligation to vote, read in-depth articles and books on political issues, become active members of politically oriented groups, and initiate discussions on current events with friends and family. "The decades-old decline in voter turnout is a direct result of a national epidemic of PADD," said the report.

More:
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/06/30/112336.php

[Bitwit1234]

1. I know how to fix that...

First create a electronic game. Where the public gets to zonk and zap politicans.....might peak their interest.

Then have a Political Idol reality show on TV. Each week another political gets to "fret and strut upon the stage". Then you can vote the one off you think didn't blow enough gas, or blew too much gas...that 'll get 'em quick.