Why do I hate politics and politicians?
Oh, the number of ways is immeasurable. We have put up with a year of stupidity. Neither camp has made any positive contribution, just snapping at the others heels like a Chihuahua on Viagra. The entire result of this negative campaigning is that no-one cares any more. The average voter is so ticked off that they are either not going to bother to cast their vote at all, or vote for ‘the nice guy that runs the local bar’ as a write in candidate.
Of course the internet is not helping matters. Everyone and their Sarah Palin stand in’s has a piece of the action. On the bright side, we only have to put up with the Obamamercials and the McCainocy for a scant three more days. Hopefully one of them will garner enough votes that we can all return to our normal lives. No doubt we will have to listen to fiction about how the first hundred days of their presidency is going to be earth shattering. Gas prices are going to return to 99 cents a gallon, and mortgages will be $50 a month!
No one believes this stuff, they are all hoods!
It is rarely that I dip into the political cesspool, I prefer to write about worlds that matter, and worlds that actually are real, rather than the esthetics’s of the ephemeral world of politics. So what prompted my urge to put fingers to keyboard?
I receive more email everyday than the average Joe (Plumber or otherwise). Most are press releases, a few are offers to make a quick $5 million dollars from a bank in Nigeria, several want to sell me products that will enhance my sex life, and even a few are emails from real people (I look forward to those, and I do read them)!
The Election has brought out the worst in people. These days my inbox has more begging letters from political organizations than Nigerian money scams. Mind you, I think they both have the same credibility. A great example is the following email that I received from some group that seem to think that I give a damn. Town Hall Spotlight is the name. And Republic is their game.
In part, this piece of idiocy read:
We must raise an additional $5 million in the next 72 hours to help fund our final get-out-the-vote efforts.
Our team needs you to make one more donation of any amount you can afford as we head into this weekend.
Thanks to your generosity, our candidates are closing in the polls, but in these final days turning out voters to the polls and convincing undecided voters is the name of the game.
Please follow this link to make an immediate donation of any amount – whether it’s $25 or $250 – every dollar will help fund our final get-out-the-vote efforts.
If the Democrats have total control of Washington, they will waste no time in passing a tax increase, immediately pulling out of Iraq and reducing funding for our men and women in uniform.
While our nation faces unprecedented economic challenges, the Obama-Biden Democrats’ solution is to “spread the wealth around.”
But our entire team of reformers has a plan to spread opportunity to all Americans through tax relief and job creation.
And if our ticket is elected next Tuesday, we’ll get right to work and reform Washington to get our nation back on the right track.
But, this won’t happen if we aren’t elected. With just days to go, we need your financial support now more than ever. Please consider making a donation to McCain-Palin Victory 2008 today. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Governor Sarah Palin
All links redacted from the article, I refuse to condone this kind of activity!
Why the hell do you need $5 million for the next 3 days? To pay for the pity party on the 4th? Or to pay the consultants, Public relations folks, tame press contacts, attack ad’s, etc. What happened to the concept that anyone could become president? These days without a huge bankroll you don’t stand a chance.
Simon Barrett – Who likes parties, just not political ones.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI hate politics too..as dumb as it sounds thats why I am not voting and leaving the decision in the hands of the Lord…Everyone calls me lazzy and stupid for it but I dunt care..Jesus is muh king the rest are well temporary….Yah parties rok…not the faction kind!!!!
The original post on this thread is so ignorant and offensive that it demands rebuttal – although my natural instinct is to sigh and move on to something more edifying. But Mr Barrett’s squalid little piece cannot be left unchallenged.
As Winston Churchill said “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” And, Mr Barrett, if you believe in democracy (perhaps you don’t?) then you have to accept that democracies need politicians. So to hate them so unreservedly is cheap and it just makes you look foolish.
I have lived a couple of times in my life in States without politicians, political parties and without even the vestiges of a democratic system. There are no checks and balances on the dictators who run these benighted countries. They do what the hell they like and you either accept that or you suffer. Human Rights can only be possible only when leaders are subject to challenge and, eventually, to the risk of being thrown out of office.
When I lived in the Middle East not one of the countries that I visited had any politicians at all – and that was no Nirvana let me tell you! Whilst the unelected leaders luxuriated in their palaces and their yachts slave labourers worked twelve hours a day for a pittance to construct these monuments to their vanity.
That there has been excess in the current US Election campaign is not doubt true. That there has been some grubby politicking along the way is true as well. But on November 4th the good people of America have the right, God-given or otherwise, to make their choice at the ballot box. To deny yourselves that right would be an offence – and a personal failure of grotesque proportions. And if you take my encouragement to go to the polling station (I hope that you do) when you are there just remember that perhaps a third of the world’s population have no democratic rights at all. They’d be very grateful to have the politicians you so ignorantly and gratuitously choose to despise.
I’m sorry Paddy Briggs, but you’ve had the fortunate benefit of living outside the United States for a few years and gotten away from circus that is the American political system. You can quote me Winston Churchill and shine all day long on the benefits of a representative democracy, blah blah, but the point is – the American political process involves little more than who puts on the biggest glamor contest and shines the best.
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