June 24, 2016
1:26 p,m,

I'm really sick of politics. I feel that our choices this time around are not choices at all. Choosing the lesser of two evils is not really choosing at all.

We're doomed. Doomed, I say!

Look, by its very nature, the politician is an untrustworthy, greedy, self-serving monster. Some are more monstrous than others, certainly. Many of them are quite charming. So is Satan.

Do I feel like we're dealing with devils here? Yes. Yes, I do.

Look, I have told you time and again that I'm not political. It's true. I don't care for the campaigns, the false promises, the rhetoric. I believe nothing. The entire enterprise is a study in failure, because these people with their "beliefs" and their "principles" do nothing but in-fight and back-stab. In the past eight years, little has been accomplished because the parties refuse to work together. It's a battle to prove one party "wrong".

I don't care which party you favor. Democrat or Republican, they are all guilty of dragging their feet, talking to much and doing too little. They make far more money than anyone ever should be paid for sitting on their butts and chewing their cuds.

Look at it this way: if you or I were employed to do a job, whether it be mopping floors or brain surgery, and instead we took vacation time or argued with our co-workers, or spent hours trying to decide which corner of the room to start mopping or where the light above the operating table should go, we would be fired.

Supposedly, these people work for us: we the people. Why are they not subject to the same terms of employment--i,e, DO YOUR JOB--that we are?Why are they entitled to a paycheck for life once they finally do leave their positions?  Why are they not entitled only to regular retirement funds and Social Security, as we are? Why are they still employed?

Maybe I'm being mean. I can be, sometimes. It just frustrates me to know that you and I would be fired if we were as ineffectual at our jobs as most of these people are proving to be.

I'm certain that there must be some good people among them. I mean, there must be, right? But they have also all been swayed by that big, big paycheck, and those unlimited terms, and that wonderful retirement plan.

It's all about what they're getting, and not about what they're getting done.

It's wrong. There are a lot of things that need fixing in this country, and none of them are being taken care of because our elected officials are too worried about things that should take a back seat to working together. 

Yeah, I know they all went into politics because they wanted to change things for the better. At least, that's what they said. That's why we elected them, because we believed them when they said it.

But they are not doing their jobs. They don't play well together. They cash their paychecks and take vacations and accomplish nothing.

And we the people  let them get away with it.

Because we're sheep. We follow the herd, and turn in the directions the dogs lead us. We've been conditioned over the years to believe that they know better.

Clearly, they don't.

We've been conditioned to believe that they will keep us safe, that they will do whatever possible to make sure that we won't come to harm.

Clearly, they won't.

Our sheepdogs are more likely to turn on each other, biting and clawing, while ignoring the herd, In the meantime, the shepherd spends more and more time trying to get the dogs under control, while the sheep run off a cliff.

And along comes the big bag wolf, undeterred by either dogs or shepherd, and eats mutton to his heart's content.

Lets face it: a shepherd is only as good as his sheepdogs allow him to be. The herd is only safe when the shepherd has control of the dogs. Fighting dogs are removed.

I'm not saying that our Senate and House of Representatives need to be "put down", as a bad sheep dog most likely would be. I'm saying it's time to remove them. It's time they lost the jobs they are failing at.

Just like any one of us would be removed from ours if we were doing it so badly.

Look, I'm just exercising  my right to rant. I don't expect much out of my rants. I'm just one person, with a very limited reach.

But I trust that there are others out there who are as scared as I am.

So what can we do? Someone tell me something besides "Go vote", because clearly, that's not the answer. Unless we can go vote to hold a nationwide "probationary period" during which our elected officials have to prove that they can work together and accomplish a set number of goals within a set period of time. Those who can't perform--out they go!

What do you think?

End rant.

Peace!