Politics is nasty business, but our Nation is not

The only analogy that comes from my experience is one of watching the swirls and eddy’s of a whitewater rapids. It is both navigable to the savvy boater, and very scary to the neophyte, which I am. And the volume of river flow is often influenced by humans, but in the end mother nature and rain and other such things have much to do with this flow.

So how does one common citizen try to grab all the swirling issues… local, national, and world? Maybe things are more predictable than it seems, although not predictable enough to become a religious leader, or someone similar. For sure our Country is recognized by its citizens as special in human history. That it can be improved is also believed in, I think. In both of the preceding is the beauty of we Americans. We are optimistic about our future, cynical about our past, and intolerant about manipulators of what drives our votes. In the latter is a cosmic shift. Today much of what goes on in D.C. and the mainstream media reflects the present dominant group…the baby boomers. But their time is coming to an end from aging, death, and voting by other citizens.

Maybe the baby boomers don’t have the best solutions as to interpreting and running the whitewater rapids. Maybe they don’t even have the experience (though many will say having gone through the history, that is good enough)…and I am sure they will try to go downriver through the rapids. Lack of practical experience will kill some of them. Should I, an old baby boomer neophyte, follow them towards possible doom? No!

In this river of politics and our County’s future there are many other river runners. These days, many are “younger” than baby boomers, and they bring their own experience to the going down the river. For those that think this is just an analogy only, just look at the whitewater boats used today compared to the past boats, and one will see there is more than one way to “go down the river”.

So why are politicians being “nasty”? What is the advantage for our Country? In the end I do not know, and there are a bunch of books on this subject, but in the end we should be selfish…our future is about us, and not the politicians and those who report. The most recently reported national politician (Democrat-Waxman) holding hearings that set up the whole charade of giving we citizens “facts” sound like he is the dinosaur that he is. Pardon me, but where is our “national interest” in his egotistical pursuit. Thank goodness he is old enough to pass on soon enough.

For those Republicans who read this article as a “hit piece”, don’t. Politics may be a nasty business, but our Country is not.