Democracy=Every 3 years, take a year to poop on the President
Is it any wonder why our country seems to get less and less respect around the world with each passing year? Our election years have disintegrated into a circus where a stage full of monkeys fling poop and they don’t just fling poop on each other, they fling it on our President and his administration.
The poop flinging is going on right now on national television.
I am not an Obama fan. I think our country is a mess and whether it is him or all of the people surrounding him in the White House, we’ve got a grade A mess on our hands. However, we have a stage full of politicians that cannot tell us what they will do to fix things – they can only complain about how broken everything is and they point the finger squarely at Obama.
Of course, this is the same way Obama ended up in office four years ago.
Can an election occur where we have people who put making this country better above and beyond everything else? I don’t think it can happen without a huge overhaul of election laws. The $$$ has got to be taken out of these campaigns. As Stephen Colbert has shown us, it’s way too easy to hide behind a PAC (or a Super-PAC). It’s all about who has the money. The elections are bought and then the legislation is bought by the same people hiding behind lobbyists.
Yes, it’s been like this for years but it is getting worse and worse and the people no longer have a voice because we (the very few that still vote) are bought by the constant barrage of commercials. We also don’t do the research. Many people voted for Barack Obama because they were voting against Sarah Palin. What a terrible way to have to make sure an important choice.
And, the primary/caucus process is a mess. Look at Iowa – around 122,000 people out of approx. 2 million registered votes had enough power that one candidate is already out. I agree with this article at the Huffington Post – these candidates won nothing. New Hampshire will be no better. Also, do these early voting states really reflect what people in more urban states (like California or Florida or New York) want?
We’ll all just have to do our best to watch this process with amusement and not let it make us any more bitter than we already are. I’m already looking forward to heading to the polls in November and placing my vote to that special candidate who is least likely to destroy our country for three years before we get to fling poop at him/her and then go through all of this again.
