Politics
Please don't get me started. We have just taken leave of our senses. We have allowed the feeding frenzy of the media and pundits and the b.s. of bloggers ( I know I am blogging) to drive and influence the election process. We have made the whole thing into a Superbowl of sorts with all the attendant hype and corporate influence and the insane need to be bigger-brighter-faster-louder-longer each time. We prey, with nothing short of some wierd lascivious intent, on every nuance and dropped vowel a road-weary candidate utters. This is not an electoral process. Not when it is fueled by such an ungodly amount of money that would be well spent improving education or health care. Our candidates are so well versed in navigating the middle that it doesn't matter who we elect. I suspect they will be remarkably similar. Gone are the days when we could actually judge a man or woman by the content of their speech. There is no way in hell that any candidate is going to give you a straight answer. If they do, why their race is over. I, for one, would dearly like to know where any of these folks truly stand and what they truly believe in and what they truly want to accomplish. It all makes me ill. It makes me jealous of Canada for Pete's sake. Don't they have a very civilized brief election period? What do we learn in two years that we can't learn in 6 weeks about a candidate? And just how in the hell can they do their jobs when they are campaigning for half their term and positioning themselves to run for the other half? Election Reform. Please.
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