Monique over on Girls Don't Game (that's satire!) has some intriguing views on gamers and politics. She speaks about gamers' general willful ignorance towards the politics involved with the video game industry these days (Clinton wants to censor the crap out of them, did you know that?). Her solution to make things better for everyone: both sides have to start listening to each other. It's a great read, anyhow, especially her dissection of the GTA controversy (despite the 8 million articles out there on the topic already).

To me, a political science college major and a gamer, both sides need to learn to get along–the sooner, the better. Somewhere along the line it became commonplace to ignore Washington if you had a controller in your hands, and somehow that has to change.

The political apathy of many gamers today is getting ridiculous. Many gamers rarely vote and most of them don’t know any of the current candidates’ stances on video games (especially Clinton’s wonderful dreams of censorship). This apathy has become naivety and it hurts the industry and us gamers more than we know. Without gamers as a political demographic, politicians and interest groups get away with their anti-gaming rhetoric, legislation and lobbying without a complaint. Sometimes, this rhetoric against gaming isn’t even true. Still, no gamers really stand up. No one corrects the misinformation–except the honorable Game Politics.

chautemoc via girlsdontgame.com »