One of the reasons I started this site is to comment on politics. Americans hate it, but really it’s all around us. It’s at work, it’s at home, it’s the pothole that jerks your tire every day and you wonder how anyone else can not notice it. Is there not at least one person who works for the government that passes it? (It took a couple years to get fixed, but it got fixed.) It would have been easier to report if there was a pothole hotline like some other cities have, but I don’t think our city officials care about that, and I don’t feel like wasting my time exploring the intestines of city government to find the department that deals with potholes.
Politics stinks. It smells, as animals do, because in politics, we are animals. That’s why we need cologne and perfume. We mask our scent and cover ourselves in suits and ties (what are these things?) and high heeled shoes that make us walk funny. We wear uncomfortable clothes so that we can look as differently as possible from the base animals that we really are.
It’s not even real. These people with their manicured hands wouldn’t survive one day without their prepared coffee and plastic cards that they use to pay for everything. Their livelihood is paid for by those they supposedly serve, and in return we get kickbacks in the form of tax loopholes or benefits of one kind or another. Most of the working stiffs get kibble bits in return, but 50 million Americans on food stamps get supermarket quality food.
The working people pay for people that can’t survive on their own. Who’s the genius behind that idea? It is ingenious. It survives without it being possible to survive.
I was a political science major in college. Now I hardly follow it because it just makes me upset most of the time. A big lesson I’ve learned is that change is very hard to do unless you are connected, or have the right people skills, or both. I apparently don’t have what it takes. So I live in the underground, just observing the world through the crevice I can see through.
I do hope that there is a change in our executive leadership next year, and that it is a big change. People are afraid to put their trust in Trump, but how about the novice politician that the majority of us believed in eight years ago? What a disappointment. My viewpoint, at this point, is how bad can it get? We are a financially bankrupt nation. On paper, we are in the red. How does government not only continue to function, but continue to grow?
What does it say about our country that a loud mouth businessman and a neurosurgeon lead in the polls ahead of politicians with way more “experience.” I think it’s a sign that Americans are ready for change. They’re ready, and I’m ready, for anyone but a politician.
Sounds catchy. Maybe it could be a slogan.
Good luck, oh country where I reside.
