Ok, I get where you are coming from.....I still can't get my head round this permanent , 'I am right, you are wrong' and you have it worse than us!
look at the Senate and Congress; they can't agree on anything.
Budgets, Obamacare, NSA... Need I go on?
That's where I get myself into stoushes, trying to point out there's precious little difference in the politicians of any Party. They're all career egoists using the Party to further themselves. There have been too many interviewed who had no compunction about admitting that they were undecided which Party to join when they decided to enter Politics. So much for ideologies. These same people then earnestly implore voters that they are the Party with the answers to everything and that theirs is the only one who will look after their interests. The only Party which understands their needs. The only one who gives a toss if they starve or not after the election.
I get close to postal about people who pipe up to say they'll be voting for a preening, narcissistic, Machiavellian, viperous show pony because he goes to church and smiles nice. And 'understands' young people because he's forever posting selfies on Twitter! Boy, and Wow, yes that's the kind of leader we need 'folks' (his favourite saying.)
Or ones who vote for some red headed virago solely because she's female and 'it's high time we had a woman for PM'..... Hell why? What difference does that make? Some of the male PMs we've had have been the biggest 'girls' in Politics.
That those two were in the same Party got me labelled as 'marketing' the other mob but they're all flawed too, just not quite so spectacularly.
My beef as usual, is with the hype that goes on, and people's gullibility to be distracted from what the basic objectives of the Party are and focus solely on politicians' poisonalities. It drives me bats!
Because they are so stuck, like limpets, to a Party they simply can't see that it has changed and no longer represents them at all.
I just try, and hope, to make people think about exactly what it is they think they're voting for. I don't care what they decide, I don't honestly believe that any Party is all that much better than another in the long run. They all get into trouble by their 2nd term and we tip 'em out and put the other lot back in and then whinge about them for 2 terms. There have been a few longer runs but few, and the politicians who were around then were a different breed to the media ponces we have today. They were statesmen then who wouldn't have gotten a vote from today's media addicted, shallow 'looks and TV performance talent' judgement afflicted voters. I just want them to think a bit deeper than that. AZIF!
We see, and know, in more detail than is healthy about politicians these days than we ever have. And we know less about what they really believe in, and what the ultimate agendas of their Parties really are. That stuff is too boring, people just want to see bloopers, and tears, and performances on Today shows, and talk about whether they're too fat to have an IQ, or how smart they must be to be seen wearing some trendy shoe brand. We even had weeks of discussing, and categorizing the 'goodies' from the 'baddies' in the media and Twitter etc determined by how many times they had worn a blue tie!!! AAAaaaaaaghhhh!
