Here’s something you may or may not know and\or understand: For the most part, people serving in political office at any level (but particularly at the federal level) have one, and only one priority: keeping their job. This isn’t surprising as that’s essentially the desire of anyone who has a job. The primary difference being most people try to keep their job by actually performing the work for which they were hired.
Not politicians. The work they should be doing is hard, and fraught with difficulty. So long ago, they learned the easy way to keep their job; convince the voters that someone else is actively preventing them from doing their job. They are most excellent at this.
So now, we have a divided country where both sides are completely sure that all the problems they face in life is someone else’s fault and thank heaven for my tireless senator\congressman fighting the good fight to make sure we get everything we want, desire, and need.
What a load of bullshit.
Let’s face the ugly fact and those are that our country was founded by rich and powerful white men who were mostly interested in providing a legal and political structure that mostly looked after the interests of rich and powerful white men. Sure, they paid lip service to the rest of us, but that was NEVER anything but an afterthought. The rest of us were simply mindless drones, fit for nothing more than mindless drone labor and other meaningless activities.
But even they, in their relentless pursuit of a system designed to promote rich and powerful white men, saw political office as public service and NOT A FREAKING LIFETIME JOB!
But we, the people, have been lazy. (and frankly far too busy trying to overcome the endless barriers put up by rich and powerful white men to our very existence to do much about it) We believed them when they said they were doing this for the good of all. (Of course, to them that meant for the good of rich and powerful white men.)
So now the most prominent leaders of our nation are rich and powerful white men (and a few rich and powerful women) who are FAR too old and out of touch to really understand the majority of the people they are paid to represent.
This is not some radically outrageous proclamation, made by me in a pathetic attempt to get attention. (Unlike practically everything I post) I believe this will all my heart. If you can provide solid evidence to the contrary, I’d be happy to see it.
