You gotta be !@#$% me!

Okay, this  installment is the first of many rants (I'm sure) about the stupid people (hearafter known as s.p.) who don't know they are...
I apologize in advance if you are offended.  Go hide in a closet.


Politics is on my mind lately.   SO...

It irritates the expletive out of me why the s.p. of the world think that:

1.    they couldn't possibly be s.p.
2.    politicians aren't s.p. too
3.    laws make sense

In my opinion, the Founding Fathers are most likely rolling in their graves, hauting the hallowed halls of Washington and Philadelphia, and kicking themselves because they can't kick the living - for what we've done to their concept of Democracy.

They built our country from the ground up so that people could be free from the tyranny of government.  We are supposed to select our own leaders that have US in mind when they make laws that keep us safe and free to go about our little peon lives (so long as we don't kill people or something in doing it) and without having to worry about tithing to some monarch (not a butterfly) and filling their personal pockets with our coin.

SO WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?????

Well, first of all envy happened.  Everyone wants to be better than the next guy.  Be more attractive.  Be smarter.  Be richer.  More powerful.  You name it.  And that started the ball rolling.

I will grant you that there are a FEW politicians in the US today that have their heart in the right place.  Ted Kennedy was one of them.  Maybe one of the last.

Then, lobbyists happened and capitalized on the envy.  (Thought Capitalism was good, didn't you, s.p.)  People with no moral or ethical bones in their stupid bodies (although they may or may not be s.p.) MAKE THEIR LIVING shafting you, dear reader.  They work for HUMOUNGOUS corporations and throw around more money that any of us would ever see in our entire lifetimes, just to get a bill before congress or buy a few votes, or confuse a stupid politician and have legislation pass that benefits their boss company.

Then, media happened and capitalized on our fear.  Fear is one of the most basic, lower-brain, animal functions.  You see something and figure out first if it is scary or not.  Fight or flight.  Even invertebrates have that much sense.  So the media get all techno and right up in our face in the living room and tells us all sorts of horrible things that will happen if this or that politician is elected.  Scary, huh?

And what's wrong with that????  
     Uhhhh, no one can predict the future except your mom who has a pretty good track record when it comes to not wearing your sweater in the freezing cold and chicken soup WILL make you feel better.

But, I digress.  No one can predict the future.  Especially the future with regard to the government.  WHY? 

It has gotten too freekin' complicated.  How many times have you voted (if you even bother to) for something after reading the referendum about 7 times and still don't understand if yes means yes--or it means no?  Scarier than the media, right?

You watch a candidate go along the campaign trail and think, "Here's a pretty good one."  And, if they're lucky enough to be elected, they get in office none of what they promised gets done.  So you think they lied to you, they're bad and can't be trusted. 
     Let's just use an analogy here to pick this apart.   Let's say you are a pharmacist.  You do good work, keep people well, help the sick -- do what a pharmacist does.  Now you don't OWN the pharmacy, you just work there.  The owner decides to change a few things.   All of a sudden, patrons are complaining.  The medicines and OTC items cost too much.  Some don't get better because the drugs are now below standard.  YOU haven't changed, the people around you, the good ol' boys have put their foot down.  They don't like your goodie-two-shoes attitude so they make you the fall guy.  Now nobody likes you.

In politics, the envious, big business and the media fall on you like a pack of dogs.  You're voted out before you can get your feet under you from fixing your predecessor's disaster, much less do anything you promised to do.

What are We, the People supposed to think?  ...Do?  How do we react responsibly?  

Well, I'm very sorry to say the the s.p. (folks with a room-temperature IQ), outnumber people with an IQ of the temp on your hot water heater setting by a fair multiple.  Even I, a jenius in my own left brain, does not have the answer.  But I would ask people to think.  Just be like Dora the Explorer and stop and think.  Breathe in.  Breathe out.  See if you can tell if you are being lied to and by whom.  Are the doomsayers EVER right?  My idiot dog Merlin is more predictable... 

Have a think.  I'll get back with you.