Unseen Benefits of the Writers Strike?

I was having some deep thoughts about the writers strike and how much it will suck that the rest of this TV season is shot and that potentially next season's TV will be affected as well. But then I thought how incredibly auspicious the occasion of no new TV for months may be in the context of a presidential election period! Maybe the people of America will actually wake up out of the TV-induced coma and really pay attention to what is going on in the country and around the world and get angry and want to do something about it! And, in turn really listen to the candidates for the presidency and then really vote! So, now I see the sliver lining of the writer's strike--I hope I am right.

-L.