I am disgusted with politics and I think I have the credentials to voice an opinion.
I was born into them, teethed on them, licked envelopes and sold Goldwater before I was old enough to know what I was getting into. One Uncle taught me nasty little Republican slogans. Another taught me equally nasty Democratic ones. I learned them all because I knew I was cute when they all laughed and clapped.
That's how it works you know. People laugh and clap and entertain us with all sorts of clever words then go ahead and do whatever they want if elected.
Politicians used to be smarter. They never let slip things like the fact that they don't know what the Constitution says, or whose side we fought on in the Revolutionary War. There was always the pretense that the little guy mattered and we were trying to do the right things as a country.
Now I often hear the patronizing words and see the gentle pats on the head as our aristocracy takes care of business -- their businesses.
For all their moaning and groaning they can afford to wait out the hard times, perhaps lower themselves to driving a Cadillac instead of a Porsche, let a couple of the maids go, put their children in second rate private schools. In fact, some of them may have to sit in the waiting room because they can't afford to keep their doctors on retainers anymore. Times are tough.
It's our own fault. Complacent and preferring to be spoon fed rather than study the issues and make the hard decisions, we elected these people, chose them and handed them the power.
Happy to be placated with the same non issues they have used to distract people for the last forty years, we vote on things that are never really resolved and which would be more appropriately dealt with in institutions, or around dinner tables.
Like it or not, we asked for all this. Isn't that sad?
This is the stuff of consequences.
I was born into them, teethed on them, licked envelopes and sold Goldwater before I was old enough to know what I was getting into. One Uncle taught me nasty little Republican slogans. Another taught me equally nasty Democratic ones. I learned them all because I knew I was cute when they all laughed and clapped.
That's how it works you know. People laugh and clap and entertain us with all sorts of clever words then go ahead and do whatever they want if elected.
Politicians used to be smarter. They never let slip things like the fact that they don't know what the Constitution says, or whose side we fought on in the Revolutionary War. There was always the pretense that the little guy mattered and we were trying to do the right things as a country.
Now I often hear the patronizing words and see the gentle pats on the head as our aristocracy takes care of business -- their businesses.
For all their moaning and groaning they can afford to wait out the hard times, perhaps lower themselves to driving a Cadillac instead of a Porsche, let a couple of the maids go, put their children in second rate private schools. In fact, some of them may have to sit in the waiting room because they can't afford to keep their doctors on retainers anymore. Times are tough.
It's our own fault. Complacent and preferring to be spoon fed rather than study the issues and make the hard decisions, we elected these people, chose them and handed them the power.
Happy to be placated with the same non issues they have used to distract people for the last forty years, we vote on things that are never really resolved and which would be more appropriately dealt with in institutions, or around dinner tables.
Like it or not, we asked for all this. Isn't that sad?
This is the stuff of consequences.
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