An Election Rant
I voted today, but as I marked my ballot I was wondering why I bothered. I am beyond disgusted with both parties and truthfully wouldn’t mind if every current member of Congress was voted out. I would love to see a candidate run on the promise of bipartisanship, but know such a candidate would never get the support of his own party.
Our country is in desperate need of leadership and all we get is politicians. Spending two years dismantling what one side did the past two years takes our country nowhere, but that seems to be our immediate future. We need people with bold ideas to solve job, healthcare, social security, education, infrastructure, homeless, immigrant, and defense problems our country faces-people with the courage to do something about these problems, people who understand that for the good of our country we have to be willing to work with those who disagree with us. Instead we get demagogues.
I can’t ever remember feeling more discouraged about the future of our country. Whether the Democrats maintain control of Congress the Republicans gain control, or one party controls the Senate and the other the House, really doesn’t matter. We get more of the same. I think the country is at a crossroads, and politicians are more worried about currying favor with those they believe can keep them in power than in guiding our country out of its doldrums.
We don’t need sound bytes, photo ops, and hate ads, but politicians have so little respect for the public, this is what they give us. I would say I don’t like the direction my country is headed, except if you look at the hundreds of politicians standing at the crossroads, you see most with their heads or thumbs up their butts, not having a clue what the country needs, just wanting to settle political scores.
As Eric Clapton said: “I’m standing at the crossroads, believe I’m sinking down.” John Boehner is no statesman, Rand Paul is no leader, and Sharon Angle is simply clueless. I wonder how far we are going to sink by the next election.
Sorry for the rant. I do appreciate you stopping by.
