Terminal Limits - Nano 2012
Nov. 1st, 2012 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joegodaIt began with the Election reform of 2020. See, the election of 2012 didn't give anyone satisfaction. It was an election based upon self-interest and it was apparent that the country had lost it's way. People were not longer voting for a candidate they believed in. Instead they were voting against a candidate that didn't belong to their party. People weren't voting for the good of the country. They were voting to prove themselves right, voting to prove someone else wrong and the candidates weren't much better.
I'm sure there was someone that truly wanted to put the country's interest at the forefront, and he, or she, may even have been somewhere among the folks that got pushed to the side for the ones who were selling snake oil promises and agreeing with every face they had to any issue that seemed harder than what to have for breakfast that morning.
If there was someone who was good and decent and hardworking, we never saw them. Or at least I never saw them. I just stood on the sidelines watching the sad, sad emotional circus, keeping in mind the words of one great man, long ago. "The American people elect the President they deserve." I'm not sure who said it first. It's been repeated so many times by so many posers, that is believe that one great man may have even have been me. Just kidding. It was Kurt Vonnegut. I think. Maybe Abe Lincoln. But definitely Vonnegut.
And that's how we ended up with a nimrod for President. Sure, he looked good. Tall, dark haired, regal chin, straight teeth. Came from a good rich family and promised that, if he was president, he would turn it all around.
Sure, he talked a good game when his script writers were on track. There were moments when he could get through an entire speech without saying "Uh…" and having to backtrack over something he had said just the week before.
An impartial observer would write this guy off as an idiot and wonder how the hell he ever got that far. A partial observer would look around and realize that there were enough folks willing to blame five decades of problems on the current president that they would have voted in a moronic cephalopod, if it meant a change to the good.
The problem is that there has never been a guarantee of a change to the good when human self-interest, otherwise known as the Game of Politics, comes into play. Nope. I've never seen it work, and I seriously doubt if I ever will. That is, until 2020.
There really was a bill presented before the House, who let it go onto the Senate, who then signed it and passed it to President Nimrod, who signed it into life, thinking it was all about him.
This bill wasn't about election reform, actually. It was a bill to increase the salaries of government officials by ten percent for the next four years. So, of course, everybody in the Self Interest fan club on Washington hill was more than happy to sign it.
They just didn't read the fine print.
Said fine print was included by one Harold Hancock, a clerk who really hated politics and politicians and thought he had one good idea to fix their little red wagons once and for all. He snuck it in after he was incensed by the pure gall of the House proposing the ten percent raise for the fifth straight year in a row.
More after rehearsal tonight.
I'm sure there was someone that truly wanted to put the country's interest at the forefront, and he, or she, may even have been somewhere among the folks that got pushed to the side for the ones who were selling snake oil promises and agreeing with every face they had to any issue that seemed harder than what to have for breakfast that morning.
If there was someone who was good and decent and hardworking, we never saw them. Or at least I never saw them. I just stood on the sidelines watching the sad, sad emotional circus, keeping in mind the words of one great man, long ago. "The American people elect the President they deserve." I'm not sure who said it first. It's been repeated so many times by so many posers, that is believe that one great man may have even have been me. Just kidding. It was Kurt Vonnegut. I think. Maybe Abe Lincoln. But definitely Vonnegut.
And that's how we ended up with a nimrod for President. Sure, he looked good. Tall, dark haired, regal chin, straight teeth. Came from a good rich family and promised that, if he was president, he would turn it all around.
Sure, he talked a good game when his script writers were on track. There were moments when he could get through an entire speech without saying "Uh…" and having to backtrack over something he had said just the week before.
An impartial observer would write this guy off as an idiot and wonder how the hell he ever got that far. A partial observer would look around and realize that there were enough folks willing to blame five decades of problems on the current president that they would have voted in a moronic cephalopod, if it meant a change to the good.
The problem is that there has never been a guarantee of a change to the good when human self-interest, otherwise known as the Game of Politics, comes into play. Nope. I've never seen it work, and I seriously doubt if I ever will. That is, until 2020.
There really was a bill presented before the House, who let it go onto the Senate, who then signed it and passed it to President Nimrod, who signed it into life, thinking it was all about him.
This bill wasn't about election reform, actually. It was a bill to increase the salaries of government officials by ten percent for the next four years. So, of course, everybody in the Self Interest fan club on Washington hill was more than happy to sign it.
They just didn't read the fine print.
Said fine print was included by one Harold Hancock, a clerk who really hated politics and politicians and thought he had one good idea to fix their little red wagons once and for all. He snuck it in after he was incensed by the pure gall of the House proposing the ten percent raise for the fifth straight year in a row.
More after rehearsal tonight.
