That is basically what it boils down to for me. I have voted in many elections and will do so this November also, but the choices seem to get worse and worse.
We expect so much, we believe so much, we do not want to believe anything less than what was done 200 years ago by the framers of our constitution who were simple gentlemen farmers, merchants and lawyers. They were amateur politicians compare to today's politicians.
These people were men of property and in those days only men of property could vote. We now have made great strides from that simple era. However, somewhere along the way things started to change and some were for the better and a lot of changes were not.
If these men were around today to view our election campaigns at any level they would be appalled simply because campaigning for them would have been an act of personal dishonor.
These men were asked to serve, got elected, did the best job they knew how to do and then went home unlike the politicians of today who are career politicians hiring armies of consultants and forming committees to "suck" in millions of dollars in "donations" from every registered voter across this great country. We get those mass mailings as I am sure you do also.
The "new" politicians created a system of Income Tax seventy years or so ago to rape our citizens of untold wealth, usually spent on things we do not endorse or skimming off so much "pork" or whatever one wants to call it, with a system of tax laws, reforms and gobbly-gook that takes another army of specialized people to help a tax payer through the maze.
Our founding fathers could never have envisioned a Social Security plan as we have today. They would be scandalized and if any business, even today, ran their business as our government runs the Social Security plan they would be arrested for many things including, but not limited to embezzlement!
This republic of ours, with its warts and all, has the greatest democracy system going when it is balanced against other counties systems, yet we have no recourse against all I have mentioned in the above paragraphs.
So, we blindly listen and watch TV campaign commercials, debates and go to the polls, blindly, believing that our vote will turn the tide and turn out the devil we have for the devil we are going to get. I know, because I will be at the polls along with my fellow citizens.
"Tread the Earth Lightly" and in the meantime May your day be filled withPeace, Light and Love,
Arlene Wright-Correll
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