Did you know there’s an election coming up?!! What’s even crazier is that a bunch of celebrities want you to go out and vote in it!

It would be hard to top the Obama “Dipdive” videos for their obnoxious celebrity quotient, but heaven knows Hollywood is trying. Exhibit A is this three minute get-out-the-vote PSA from the Creative Coalition. If you get through the whole thing, especially the last 30 seconds of precocious children, awkward dancing and generically uplifiting music, without pounding your fist on your desk and yelling “The time of purification is at hand!” — well, then you’re a better person than I.

Aside from the fact that yet again a bunch of people who think “bicameral” means their next scene is being shot from two different angles are yet again hectoring us about politics, what’s most obnoxious about the ad (and do I really have to choose?) is its prominent use of a Margaret Mead quote favored by lefties everywhere: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

It’s supposed to be inspiring, but it’s so obvious as to be inane. Of course all ideas and movements start out small. But what drives me crazy is that the statement is value neutral — simply changing the world shouldn’t be a goal unto itself. It’s what you’re changing that matters. (After all, there was a time when it was just Adolf Hitler and his small band of “committed citizens” roaming Munich beer halls trying to make a change in this big ol’ crazy world of ours.) Similarly, voting for voting’s sake or because it’s fashionable, is no enhancement to democracy.

But at least celebrities gave up on that “Vote or Die” campaign from the last election, as seeing this made me briefly contemplate the latter. Nonetheless, this scourge must end. In the spirit of Margaret Mead, I’m forming Citizens Against Celebrity Awareness. Once enough people support CACA, we can finally put an end to celebrity B.S.