For some reason this is really pissing me off! I was going to try and write something about politics today. As a matter of fact I actually started two different posts on the subject and could not finish either. I asked myself what that said about me as a citizen, that I couldn't even write about our political system, but then I thought, Now listen, just because you can't write anything intelligent about the monster we now call out political system doesn't mean you are an idiot that should be better informed, it actually means that, although you may be an idiot in this regard, you are among many very talented idiots that don't seem to understand the system any better then you do. Unfortunately they are the idiots we voted into office.
Now I'm not talking about knowledge of how the political system is set-up, or how it is supposed to work in principle. I'm talking about the fact that most political candidates seem to spend a lot of time telling everyone how screwed up their opponents are and not a lot of time telling everyone how they recognize the real problems in our society and how they intend to realistically work to fix those problems.
I hear candidates make a lot of promises like, "I will fix all our economic problems, but I won't raise taxes, I will just say abracadabra and the money will fall from heaven because it says, 'In God we Trust' on it, or 'I promise to work with congress, get them to agree with all the other promises I am making right now and solve all the countries problems! If they don't agree and make the changes I am promising to make, then I will hypnotize them and then they will'." What obviously follows here is that since that probably won't work with congress they will hypnotize us with so much bull shit we won't know whether we are coming or going by the time they are done.
It seems to me that our political system has become so ridiculous that we citizens have no idea what to do about it any more. Our politicians are so busy slinging so much crap at each other that they have not only forgotten why they are where they are (you know, like Florida or Hawaii at a conference we are paying for! How come they never have a conference in North Dakota in December?) but they've forgotten who the boss is around here. You can't really blame them, we have evidently forgotten who the boss is as well (it's us stupid).
We citizens have got to take responsibility for what has happened. Not only were we stupid enough to think we could vote for someone, send them to Washington DC (or never-never land as I like to refer to it), give them the power to change peoples lives and then act surprised when they don't change anything but their annual income. For some reason we seem to want to think we have sent Jesus to Washington DC and then we are dumb enough to act surprised when they are not performing miracles.
My vote is to completely change the entire political system. We can base it on the merit program. When a politician creates livable housing for their constituents, they can move from the tent we have them staying in to an apartment of our choosing. When they have come up with a workable health care plan we can let them enroll in it and use what everyone else is using, be it a witch doctor or a medical doctor, they can choose whom ever they like. And when they get the national debt to a workable level that's in the black, they can start drawing a paycheck.
When these and many other changes happen, maybe then Jesus will return, although it's my bet that he will still level the place just to get rid of the smell. I did not solve any of the countries problems with this post, but I really don't feel to guilty about it. No one else has solved any of the countries problems either. Maybe if we required every graduating class of every university in this country to come up with a workable solution to at least one legitimate problem before they could graduate it would have an impact. I doubt it, Jesus doesn't go to any of those schools...............that we know of!
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