With the extreme silly season in full swing with endless negative ads, pathetic candidates and boring misinformed pundits and truly disgusting programming from the TV..it is time to step back and take a break from this moronic exercise in futility…..
Since I was about 15 years old I have liked politics and political theory, but in the last decade I have watched that go down the crapper…..I try to help people think about what is going on in the world of politics….sometimes I have been called many things for many reasons, none of which are accurate….I guess what my grandfather told me about writing and talking politics….”when you try to teach pigs to sing….you waste your time and piss off the pig”…….and damn! The man was prophetic!
I have analyzed many political seasons……and this one is the worst one I have witnessed. This election has been condensed down to the lowest denominator……it is about who can sling the most mud and insults at the other….it is bad enough that the candidates are doing it but now these bottom feeders have the American people doing it to each other.
I want to believe that the people want what is best for the country and its citizens….but you would not know it by all the rhetoric on either side. With people’s lives hanging in the balance the election is about who wins or loses….not about what one would do if elected. Oh both sides of this theater has lots of ‘ideas’ but none of them are realistic….just mindless rhetoric to confuse and misinform
It is about a month until the conventions and I am sick at the amount of crap that is said and done in the name of the American people. This election has seldom been about the lives of the people but rather a contest of personalities. It is about sound bites not policies……..it is about 30 second interviews and not substantial policies….
It is negativity at its worse. And people that try to make sense of this steam pile of bovine fecal matter are demonized, both sides, some of it is warranted and most of it is not. This system was founded on the idea of equality and today it is about which side has the most money for their attacks…..
So enough is enough!
I have decided to take a break from the mindless exercise that is the 2012 election until after the conventions maybe then this will return to the point where it is about what is best for the country. I will continue to post every day but they will not be so much about the candidates but other cool stuff. Since I worked in the Middle East in my younger years I will do some posting on stuff in the area……I regret that I feel I have to cleanse myself from the pathetic crap that this election is conjuring up……..
Hopefully, sanity returns!
Lobotero,
Obviously I wasn’t around back in the 60’s, but I think you’re forgetting the Johnson/Goldwater election. Remember the little girl with the flower? That was a disgraceful portrayal of Goldwater’s position, even by today’s standards.
That was my first political campaign moment….and I do remember the ad…it is called the Daisy ad….and it was used only once…we were not beaten over the head minute by minute with bullshit….be3sides politicos agreed that it was over the top and it was pulled….cannot say that today……by pulling it they showed something that does not exist today…civility.
Regardless, it was a provocative ad. But don’t forget the assassination of Kennedy and the attempts on Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. Where was the civility?
Also, keep in mind that we were under threat of a nuclear holocaust back then, so there was a sense of unity that seems to exist today only during times of tragedy.
Oh my God, are you defending this crap we call the 2012 election?
No. I’m not defending any of it or saying that any one time in recent American history is better than another. Politicians have been crooked, low-down, rotten sonsabitches for at least the last 100 years. There is no honor.
Or any spine for that matter…….
Terrance I am talking about the campaigns….the assassination attempts had little to do with the campaign ads and such…unless we try to believe some of the bullshit conspiracy theories….
You’re basically saying that civility does not exist within the campaigns. But if it doesn’t exist in the political scene in general, or society for that matter, politicians are going to take their campaign down whatever course they feel is best for them. Let’s face it, this county is divided and it’s that divisiveness that is going to reign supreme during this campaign. Don’t be so naive, Lob. You know this.
A country can be divided, it happens all the time, but this is driven more by hate, on both sides, than policy…..I have seen ugly campaigns but this time it is “Fugly”……