The American Voter...A Study In Stupid
By Thomas D. Segel (09/21/08)
Harlingen, Texas, September 20, 2008: It is impossible for anyone with an ounce of grey matter under the hairline to understand the American voter. For more years than can be counted, at least half of the population has disliked, even hated one of the major political parties. That anger, distrust, worry, frustration, rage…whatever it was at the moment had them in such a tizzy that they voted for the candidate of the opposing party.
The reality is.... it really doesn’t matter which party is in office any longer. What the voters are doing is attempting to choose one bad group, hoping it will be better than the other bad group.
The American voter….What logic. He or she looks at the current administration and ranks it among the bottom dwellers of the local sewer system. Then a vote is cast to remove this vile gang from the seats of power, only to replace them with the opposing group of bottom dwellers that had been cast aside four or eight years previously.
The American voter…What double standards. He or she looks at the makeup of Congress and sees lies, liars, crooks, cheats, and an inability to do anything rational to correct the problems of Americans. In the minds of Americans these are horrible, horrible people that have been placed in office by mistake and we rank them somewhere below whale manure at fifty thousand fathoms. Then a vote is cast…but, it is usually to keep the man or woman from the voter’s district or state in office. After all that representative or senator brings home the bacon. It is all the other incompetents who should be removed from office.
The American voter…What a dreamer. He or she hears those promises to make life better, improve education, end criminal activity, stop war, fight fire and find an effective cure for dandruff…and believes them again, and again, and again. It has all been said before and it has always failed to materialize. But, this time…this time the candidate will get it right. How does the voter know this for sure? Why, because the candidate has said so. They don’t bother to check what the party said last week, or last month, or last year. They don’t match up the words spoken in our town with the words spoken in another town or another state. Our candidate said so…and it must be the truth.
We now have an administration trying to fix a mess that it was party to creating. The problems were placed in front of us by a previous administration that was pandering to its voters. The financial mess we face was given its foundation by a Congress that, when it comes to financial skills, ranks just slightly lower than my four year old grandson trying to buy a new hot wheels car with seven cents.
When it comes to war fighting, the Administration, the Congress, the Washington elite, and the other assorted politicos have the keen ability to ignore sound military advice, listen to the disgruntled, worry along with the bean counters and never take time to understand we need to do far more than keep sending our best and brightest young people into battle again and again and again…with no end in sight. Our voters see this happening but fail to insist on a stronger, larger, better equipped combat force. These are the same voters who ignore our men and women in uniform, while they keep the disloyal, the connivers and the crooks in office, allowing them to bail out the financial vampires who have sucked our economy dry.
One of the candidates has even used a line in his campaign about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different outcomes. The American voters do just that every election…a real study in stupid.
Semper Fidelis,
Thomas D. Segel
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