I
DON’T GET IT…..BUT I’M WILLING TO LEARN
(FRAZER
CHRONICLE)
(All
the News That Nobody Else Will Print)
We are entering the silly
season…..that’s right, it’s when people, both men and women start acting like
preachers, go around wearing those fake smiles, looking like that big ole fat
Cheshire cat, kind of satisfied, but
always looking for more. It’s the season when honesty is stretched right to
the breaking point, and often is stretched past it, and snaps. It’s a time when
the United States is looking for a few good people, both men and women…..and
mostly they ain’t it!
It’s a time when everybody
wants to be fresh as paint, or at
least give off that appearance, these people actually go around kissing babies,
and glad-handing…..shaking hands with
everybody that they meet. It’s a time when the media, all media, tends
to lose itself in all the hype that they themselves are writing. Cooler heads
do not prevail, but who can blame the media, they shovel what their given by
campaign organizations without so much as a thought to credible
investigation…..investigation costs money, and anyways, this is the era of “one hour news coverage”.
I’m sure by now, without
much effort you’ve guessed what I’m talking about…..(no you don’t get three guesses), if you haven’t guessed by now
you’re an idiot and won’t catch my drift anyways. The silly season is none
other than the presidential election cycle that gets longer and longer with
each passing election. It’s a way that these dudes and dudettes (female dudes)
want to operate when they’re campaigning, they don’t have to make any
decisions, they just state what they stand for and move on to the next campaign
stop.
To be a candidate in today’s
world, first and foremost, you’ve got to be some sort of masochist; the abuse
that’s piled on political candidates is unreal. With little exception, in every
election, whether for the president of the United States or the dog catcher of
Pleasant Valley, you’ve got to be prepared for the worst and most brutal
mud-slinging in your life. Wherever there’s a bit of power, money and some
dinky benefits, look out, you’re usually in for a no holds barred fight to the
finish.
EVERYBODY’S
GOT SKELETONS IN THEIR CLOSET
Today’s political campaigns,
I think, are different than at any time in the history of the United States.
The vast amounts of money involved in politics today can be used to dig up all
sorts of political dirt; from a
candidate’s most overt of acts to the most innocent…..nothing is safe.
I am not saying that today’s
political campaigns, candidates and their committee’s can “take the cake” for their political snarling and cavorting around
like their lily white, far from it.
The present time in the country’s history of political skullduggery does not
have a corner on the market of mud-slinging, it’s just reported in an almost
unending coverage, and is now slanted (liberal or conservative) by whichever
media source one might watch, read or listen to.
There’s all types of
political scandal…..it’s one of the big reasons that I never considered a
political career, I don’t want anybody rummaging around in my closets. Without
a doubt my favorite dirt that has resulted from messing around in a candidate’s
closet is…..what else, a sex scandal.
To my way of thinking there’s
nothing better than a juicy, clandestine affair with all sorts of innuendos,
hidden cameras, love notes, or better, texts. Sex scandals have been around
since the late 17th century…..at the very beginning of the 13
colonies…..before there was a real United States.
I’m talking about a time in
the country’s history when it was a struggle just to shoot enough game to keep
everybody fed, and the biggest job was to stay alive, warm, and provide some
sort of roof over one’s head. Secretary Treasury Alexander Hamilton had an affair with Maria Reynolds while both were married
to other people. Ms. Reynolds husband blackmailed dirty old Al, forcing him to confess, which damaged his
already controversial career.
Down through the annals of
American history sex has played a key role in exposing the country’s top
political officials to their weaknesses and, at the time, tarnishing their image,
careers and families. It seems that during the early days of the United States
white political figures actually enjoyed the charms of the slaves that they had in their charge on their
plantations…..even Thomas Jefferson.
I’m not talking about those
scandals that were propagated during a term in office; I’m talking about what I
would call BEFORE OFFICE or (BO). I guess during a time in a person’s
life when he, or she, seems to sew wild oats, or committed financial or
business indiscretions before they decided to seek a public office where they’d
need the citizen’s electoral support.
AND
DON’T GIVE ME THAT TIRED OLD CRAP EITHER
And please spear me; I ain’t
got time for an opinion about which political party is worse in how they
practice their politics, I swear they’ve both used the same books, and been
taught by the same people.
There’s a Federal Election
Commission, founded in 1975, is manned by six members who serve six year terms,
and are nominated by the president and confirmed by the US Senate. The terms
are staggered so that every couple of years the sitting president has to
appoint two people that need to be confirmed before they can take office.
Their job is to enforce
limitations and prohibitions on contributions and expenditures of federal
campaign laws, to keep track of all
contributions over $200 along with each donors home address, employer
and job title. This “database” goes
back to 1980. Private organizations are legally prohibited from using this data
to solicit new individual donors…..but may use the data to solicit Political
Action Committees…..kinda defeats the purpose
doesn’t it?
There are all sorts of
rules, regulations and laws that have
been established to monitor the country’s political process. Sadly in many
cases the view is at best murky, and
left to the individual’s interpretation.
I’ll say it once again about
one of the United States institutions,
like many other of these staples of the country…..it needs changing, upgraded,
and put on a level playing field. But the first thing that needs to be done is
for us, the people to wise up, and quite this stupid partisan bickering, it’s what
the politicians count upon to help them maintain the status-quo.
HAVE
A NICE DAY!
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