Arkansas Blog

It all comes down to understanding than when one speaks of a politician it's like talking about The Pinta Island tortoise, the rarest animal in the world today. Politicians are not like you and me. It's amazing any are popular, our gut instinct should be to hunt them all down and kill them for the safety of the world.

When praising the Clintons there should always be an asterisk behind every sentence leading down the page to where it says ( * For a politician, not applicable to normal folk) Why we choose to not only put up with politicians, but elevate them to sainthood is beyond comprehension. Used car dealers with such records of dishonesty are regularly run out of town. In recent decades politicians have managed to morph up to the status of rock stars, though they have no talent. Their pictures are on display everywhere you look, though very very few are even attractive. When one of them manages to say something brilliant, their speech writer is never given the credit.

We pay them to lie to us, line their pockets and do the evil of their backers even if it means withholding medical care from sick children. We let them bomb and kill thousands of children in Iraq each year while worrying us to death over post-conception bits of goo. They can seduce teenagers, cavort with hookers and gay men in airport restrooms and still remain in office spouting Family Values and pointing their fingers at others. They get full pensions for life, free health care for life and no one questions how come they're all filthy rich when they leave office.

We are at fault for letting them get by with murder and pushing them to live in some kind of rarefied atmosphere of their own choosing . And because of that it's not a question of supporting the best people....it's a question of supporting the less evil over the more evil. Until we trash this broken system of government, we are doomed to stay on this crooked road forever.

Demanding equality of rights, privileges, and benefits for voters and politicians alike would be a good first step. People with free health care shouldn't be allowed to vote for no health care for others. People with full pensions for life shouldn't be allowed to vote to do away with pensions for others. People with governmental blank checks shouldn't be allowed to upbraid us for being poor. People who demand to know about us to the point of tapping our phones and reading our email shouldn't be allowed to conduct their lives in secret.

They do it because we let them. Stop letting them!