We are still about 2 years away from an election and already the political machines on both sides of the aisle are revving up and starting to sling mud. We’ve entered a phase in american politics where the election season never ends and both sides engage in endless posturing, diatribes, and pointless bickering.
I find it amazing to see that with all the work that needs to be done such as fixing infrastructure, reforming our immigration system, balancing the budget, restoring our education system to prominence, and a host of other issues that the only thing we seem to have time to do is to launch accusations and suggest investigations back and forth.
How do the american people accept this soap opera to be a functioning system of government? Someone somewhere must be saying that there’s got to be a better way of doing things, but if they are, they are being drowned out by the media pundits that salivate at the thought of the latest outrageous lies that they can capture and rebroadcast to a seemingly insatiable public that seems to love hearing their utterances.
Now with the internet and instant contact on social media these attention leeches not only feel free to express themselves more but seemingly feel obligated to outdo themselves with even more stupidity.
Really it makes one despair for the political process. I could say that things were better when I was young and inevitably someone might answer that my perspective is warped and it really wasn’t better when I was young. But truth be told, it really was better when I was young.
The way things are going we will see record amounts spent on the next national election cycle. Money that comes from political action groups. All in the name of free expression and most of it from the vaults of concerned corporations that will have access to the winners and in some cases will be writing the legislation for the winners to submit to congress.
Is this what you want out of your government?
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