I am overloaded with politics! This election for president has been going on seemingly forever. Obviously, it has been going on for nearly two full years. The two final candidates have spent nearly $1 billion between the two of them. They have filled the airwaves with television and radio advertisements and they have filled the newspapers and mailboxes with written advertisements.
In addition to the presidential campaigns, we have been inundated with congressional campaigning and local senate and assembly campaigning. Telephones have been ringing with 'get out the vote' campaigns and with 'robo calls'. Lawn signs have seemed to grow for the past three or four months. Early voting has been going on for a month or better.
I have watched the 'talking heads' tell me what I should be thinking until I want to throw something through my television screen. I have seen the Saturday Night Live videos over and over again. I have seen the late night show clips over and over again.
I have listened to the 'pollsters' explain this and that trying to convince us as to their method's accuracy. The plethora of polls has produced varying numbers for months on end. If there are six polls released in a day, there six different sets of numbers. Exit polls were even wrong last time around. Why should I put money on pre-election polls?
The candidates seem unable to even agree with themselves. One tax plan has three or four different versions in as many weeks. Amazingly, each political party is to blame for everything bad that has happened according to the other party. Washington insiders dress up to appear on the Sunday morning talk shows and spew the day's 'talking points' as if they are gospel.
We are given the treatment befitting idiots by both parties. If we are so dumb as to fall for their lines, why in the world are we given a vote? We would obviously not even be able to find a polling place if we were susceptible to their diatribes.
Political activist organizations are falling all over themselves to sign up new voters. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck get registered and we are to feel assured that every vote cast is a legitimate vote from a legitimate voter.
Senators running for re-election are convicted of accepting bribes. Congressmen who took money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac like it was going out of style are now sitting in Washington meeting rooms with the look of the pious telling us why it was someone else's fault that our economy took a nose dive.
Re-election to office is so nearly automatic that we citizens ought to be examined carefully to assure full mental faculties before we permitted to get close to a ballot box.
I am tired and it isn't even election day yet. I am disgusted with what we have permitted to happen in our country. I am disgusted that so many of my fellow citizens seem to fall for the largest promise of good things if we'll simply elect the right people from the right party. Elect me and I'll give you this; no, elect me and I'll give even more than he will!
Have we lost our senses completely? Do we really think that government creates anything? Is it possible that we can all get a tax cut, especially when tax reductions from one administration will be ended? Is it really possible for 95% of Americans to receive a tax cut? How is it that we can reduce taxes when we have the national debt that we have? How is it that we permit ourselves to be hoodwinked on a regular two year and four year cycle? Should we really end our foreign trade deals? Will we be able to have what we want when others don't get what they want? How will we keep our economy moving when we refuse to recognize that we can't possible get to the level of greenhouse gas emissions the various players are telling us they'll get us to in the time span allotted by their plans? Where do we think the money for such programs is coming from?
Are we nuts?
I have political overload, and I fear it isn't going to end on the evening of November 4th
