Recently I’ve found myself tired. Not just tired from working ten-hour days, six days a week or dealing with a one year old at home either. I’m tired of the crap coming out of Washington (and Sacramento for that matter). Tired of the media spending more time on Lindsay Lohan than reporting that the majority of America completely despises the direction this country is going. I watch the nightly news and read everything I can but I keep coming back to the same conclusion. The media reports inane BS to keep us from noticing we are truly headed down the toilet. Most of the polls agree that decisions inside the Beltway have nothing to do with popular opinion.
I know a few of you think I’m over reacting. This is nothing new, the media always goes for the cheap shot to get the lowest common denominator to read their magazines (now websites) and the government has been for the people in decades (if ever). I’m not too young to have forgotten Watergate, Vietnam, Cigar-gate, or our Vice President getting happy with a shotgun. What really concerns me is that when I was growing up I always looked at the generation preceding me as the problem. We (our generation) would do things differently. We wouldn’t sit by a watch the politicians ruin this country. We would right the wrongs and fix things at home before we tried to fix the rest of the world. What ever happened to “Think Globally, Act Locally”? Hell, we can’t even manage to build a fence. Let us make Mexico a “Good Neighbor” and put them behind a fence (I apologize to Mr. Frost for the misuse of his quote).
I guess what really scares me is that I now have a child to think about. What legacy are we leaving for our children? How on Earth can I teach her about personal responsibility and accountability if our own elected officials are clearly not representing their constituency? Am I the only one having a problem with this? Don’t even mention the debt we’re leaving for our grand-children!
Have you ever worked at a job that was just SO screwed up that you eventually stopped giving a damn and let the chips fall where they may? I was never one of those employees to take the path of least resistance. I had no problem pushing against the tide. Hell, the wife says I would argue with the ocean if I had the time. (Did I miss any colloquialisms in there?) What I’ve noticed of late is an increase in benign indifference. People are just fed up with the whole mess. I’m hoping that this year they will be upset enough to go out and vote. If not there truly is no hope in fixing this great experiment we call government.
On there other hand there may be quite a bit of malice and malignant indifference brewing out there. You know what I mean: let them screw it up and then we can get rid of the whole lot of them! Of course, some of us feel we’ve already reached that point. Maybe that’s one reason firearm ammunition sales are doing so well. People are waiting for the system to fall and they want to be able to protect themselves.
I clearly don’t have any answers here. I will be voting this year and the incumbents will be looking for jobs if I have my way. If you don’t get out and vote you too are part of the problem and no better than the crooks in Washington D.C. Get out there and do something. Talk to people at work. Get them thinking. Get them angry. Maybe together we can change the status quo, if we’re not too tired.
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We can effect change only when we elect constitutional conservatives from either of the major parties. I realize it may be almost impossible to find them in the current democrat party; but one hopes.