POLY-TICS

One thing I have always been vastly disinterested in is the dreaded politics.

Politics, in any form, is just a buncha hot air.

There is no way I am going to believe that a politician, after spending so much time in their allotted position, is going to be able to connect with the needs of the common man.

Now, I am not THAT stupid. I understand fully that you can’t please everyone and that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Blah,blah,blah

The way I explained politics to my kids was as such.

Everyone has a voice in America and everyone also wants their voice to be heard. You have been in a noisy room where a bunch of people are standing around just talking and murmuring to each other, right? OK not imagine a whole country like that. Kinda loud and cant hear anything.

So we elect certain people to be our voice.

Then we all tell them what we want said and they take that list to a room in our city with a buncha other people just like them and they each all talk at the same time and try to get all of their lists taken care of. Once everyone has finished reading off their lists, these guys (and gals) then try to lump certain items together and filter out other items, to try and make the main list smaller and more manageable.

They then hand that list off to another guy, who has been chosen by us as well, who takes the list to a room in our county with a buncha other people just like them and they each all talk at the same time and try to get all of their lists taken care of. Once everyone has finished reading off their lists, these guys (and gals) then try to lump certain items together and filter out other items, to try and make the main list smaller and more manageable.

(There is a pattern here)

They then hand that list off to another guy, who has been chosen by us as well, who takes the list to a room in our state with a buncha other people just like them and they each all talk at the same time and try to get all of their lists taken care of. Once everyone has finished reading off their lists, these guys (and gals) then try to lump certain items together and filter out other items, to try and make the main list smaller and more manageable.

They then hand that list off to another guy, who has been chosen by us as well, who takes the list to a room in Washington with a buncha other people just like them and they each all talk at the same time and try to get all of their lists taken care of. Once everyone has finished reading off their lists, these guys (and gals) then try to lump certain items together and filter out other items, to try and make the main list smaller and more manageable.

Have you ever played the game telephone where 1 person says a phrase and it passes from one person to another until it gets to the last one and they repeat the garbled message

**note this game does not work for groups of 3 people or less**

Same thing with politics, so by the time the message is ready to go to the President for his OK and No way, the message has changed, bent, twisted or just plain broke. So if you had mentioned to your city representative that

“Boy, I sure would like to pay less for gas.”

By the time the President hears the message it says

“Please give all our money to Congress and the Senate”

I firmly and strongly believe that the voice of 1 person railing against the establishment is the same as a million voices, not going to get squat done. Now back in the day, back when this country was first founded, yeah! The voice of the people had a LOT of pull. When the people pushed back the Government had little choice but to listen to them and even *gasp* obey!

However, now days that is not even a piece of the puzzle anymore. In today’s world they just like to keep up the illusion that your voice actually means something.

Why?

Because if they didn’t then as a people we would get fed up and revolt to have our voice heard. However, if they just continue to tell us that we have a voice and they are listening, then we go back to our hovels and stare at our idiot boxes and figure all is ok.

It really doesn’t matter what you say or what you do or the party you belong to.

None. Of. It. Matters.

As long as this world is spinning (which with the way the skin is shuddering might not be too much longer) but forever and ever, the Haves will keep on having, the Havenots will continue to have not and nothing will ever change that.

The Havenots group will always grow and will always have less pull and less influence then the Haves. How am I so certain?

Lets think here.

Let’s say tomorrow morning there is a great revolution and everyone who is a “Have” is dragged through the streets in a burlap bag. All corporations become ran by the employees, all monies are distributed evenly among all the people.

Even ground across the board.

By the end of the week, someone will be in charge and expect more for doing so.

By the end of the week, someone will have double their portions just because that’s what they want.

That’s just the way we work.