Buy low, sell high, politically speaking

For decades we have voted for politicians who placated us with more and more benefits generated by the vast wealth we Americans generate, and share through taxes; and more recently, a lot of borrowing.

All has not been easy given the control of public schools and their curriculums, for example.

But suppose the boom becomes bust, as most good runs end when enough is finally added on to the run to bring it down. This analogy seems appropriate to today’s America, the society and its politicians, and the coming elections. All this is exacerbated by so many others in the world who seek our quality of life and relative comfort and family safety, politically speaking. America is special in the world’s history, though many take it for granted, as in it is a “right” that comes from birth. America’s high quality of life is simply underappreciated by those not otherwise exposed to the rest of the world. Those that think things like clean running water, flush toilets, splinter-free toilet paper, electricity on demand, reasonable medical care, safe food, and “political rights guaranteed by a constitution”, will be disappointed if the economic and political boom goes bust.

Given this concern, the present American candidates for President from both political parties seem too status quo to this poster. Now all of us accept that politicians are a special breed, and one should accept this. But should we also accept that they are the only present choices for what may be hard times ahead, certainly not the status quo times. One still never hears terms like “national interests” being a consideration for our votes. It should be so, locally, state, and federal.

Until the term “national interests” becomes a topic, the present status quo candidates are suspect. This poster has “had it”. Our America has many more good leaders than running for offices today (515,00 elected offices by one count). Candidates that think of national interests as compared to mining and abusing our national wealth are the kind this poster thinks of. Most of the other world thinks this way, and we should, too.

We are not omnipotent, especially economically and militarily. We need to take care of ourselves at home, first. And our American way of doing this is what makes us so appealing. But always, national interests first.

Candidates who are willing to say these kind of ideas and run on their ideas can still be in the forefront today. Those who still are status quo, and hope to buy low and sell high, politically speaking, are on the way out. In the end, it is our voter decisions. The status quo types will say let it ride, and take what they and we get, even muddle through. The “national interest” types want to do better than that, as in decide what America will be in the near future. This is our constitutional privilege, thank goodness.