When something is broken you have three choices. Fix it, get a new one or live with it broken. Unfortunately ‘live with it broken’ is the default setting that kicks in when we can’t decide. It’s also usually the least productive ‘fix’.
Our country is broken right now. Personal and government debt are at all time highs. We lost our credit rating as a nation for the first time in history. Unemployment isn’t moving. Foreclosed on houses sit rotting empty while people huddle in homeless shelters. We have three choices; fix it, get a new one or live with it broken.
Getting a new country isn’t easy, as you probably know from my year-long struggle to get my visa here in Australia. Not everyone welcomes immigrants with open arms as easily as the United States. I think most of us are tired of living with things broken as they are now. The only real choice, as I see it, is to fix it.
We’ve been promised everything under the sun, but we are getting jaded as they turn out to be hot air. Like faithless lovers, our political leaders woo us with sweet words and then drop us like yesterday’s gossip after they’ve gotten what they wanted. We clamoured for change, but forgot to add “for the better”.
As the 2012 elections heat up I think it may be time for us all to rethink our decisions and to start thinking outside the box. Things don’t seem to be working so good as they are. We need politicians that don’t drone meaningless slogans at us and determine our nation’s fate around their opinion polls. The status quo has turned out to be quap.
All my life I’ve claimed to be politically agnostic. I didn’t care what the politicians did because in my eyes they all did what they wanted anyways. I voted because it was politically correct, not because I felt I had a vested interest. To me it didn’t matter who was in office because they were all full of bull anyways.
I’m starting to care. I see those in charge acting like a bunch of third grade girls having a feud. Gossip and backstabbing are as much a part of campaigning as empty promises and it’s all ‘just politics’. When the squabbles get our nation repo’d and cause long lines of the jobless to queue up, however, it’s time to pay attention. This is going beyond being humorous fodder for late night talk shows.
This election I am going to pay attention to the candidates based on their actions instead of their empty words, and when they don’t come thru on their promises I’m holding them accountable. This is survival politics, and ignorance is no longer an option.
It’s time to remember that We the People hold the deed to the nation. America is our country and it is high time we take ownership.
AMEN
My dad always says: “What happens to them when they get elected?” I haven’t figured that out either. Also, I don’t understand how these career politicians can say they are “outsiders.” Oh my, this election cycle is going to be a little loopy.