Thursday, October 30, 2008

What is the Answer?

After my last post I had someone comment to ask what the answer was to all this, and honestly I have no idea. I guess that's one of the benefits of having a blog...you can complain all you want, but never have any answers. Without sounding like a complete revolutionist I could advocate that we move to a system similar to that in England, but they have their issues as well. Could we just ask everyone to cooperate a little bit better? We could, but it wouldn't do any good.

As with many people these days, those in government keep moving the line of acceptable behavior. We always argued about the issues, but it rarely became personal. Now we have all sorts of name-calling on both sides, and it just keeps getting worse. Maybe we should adopt the mafia's, "It's not personal, it's just business" saying for government? If we did that, maybe people wouldn't feel the need to dig so deep?

Who knows? I stay in the middle of the road on most issues, so who am I to talk? Many of my friends tell me that I don't have the right to complain because I never really take a stand. I tell them that it's not that I don't have opinions, I just don't tell everyone what my opinions are when it comes to which side I'm on. I would much rather discuss issues of ethics and fairness than to call names. The big picture is a lot more important to me than who the favor-of-the-month is...and that's all this election is about.

I don't expect much from anyone who becomes president, they are crazy for wanting the job in the first place. They live at the will of Congress, and are constantly taking responsibility for things they have no control over. They make decisions based on what will get them elected, or add to their war-chest. They do nothing for the common person. Why would they? Most of them come from rich families, with no idea what it is like to struggle paycheck to paycheck.

Bottom line: When you don't know how many homes you own...you have too much damn money!

3 comments:

sara said...

AMEN TO THE BOTTOM LINE!!!!!!!!!
I cannot wait until this election is over. I am so tired of the mudslinging and negative campaigning!!!!!! Everytime I turn on the TV it is some political ad that is played every time a commerical break happens...
The whole political ad annoyance started (can yo believe it??) last year! I heard somewhere that there are more political ads on TV in the "battleground" states. Since Iowa is considered a battelground state, we have more political commercials. That makes me want to move somewhere else!

Lauren said...

I agree with you both. I think that our political system is a joke (although I would have no idea how to improve it). Our campaigns cost so much and each party understands the psychology of our society and they all just say what will get them elected. We citizens really have no idea exactly how things work in DC and what decisions will be made. Again, who's to say the President will even make much of a difference on any issue. I am also in the middle on many issues and I believe that I have a right to clearly state what I feel about the issues, even if I am not a right wing conservative or left liberal. We, in the middle, are just not afraid of admitting that we have no idea what the best decision would be for our whole country. Being severely left or right is the same thing that is wrong with 'religion'. They think that their's is THE ONLY WAY to be. Sorry, but this world is too big to have 1 religion or one political party be THE ANSWER. There's my rant. :)

tekster said...

I am also done with all the ads etc. but I have to tell you my children have never been so involved in politics as they have been with this election. My 10 year old in fact guotes ads and has a strong opinion on his candidate choice. We have had many great discussions as a result of all this publicity so I am trying to look for a positive spin on a topic many of us are ready to be done with!