Running an American government is too important to be left to today’s loser politicians

And the reporting media and pundits that make their living promoting their politicians…

It has not always been this way. And politicians and media are usually hard working. Not too many decades ago politicians and reporting media even had some modicum of National Interests, and our common citizen’s interests in their practices. Even if most promoted their local districts and even themselves and their political philosophies, they also recognized the need to nurture our Country. And there were few pundits, PhD experts, etc., etc., etc. Even standards of basic integrity were different a few decades ago. Politicians lying about their promises to the voters, called campaign platforms, were still expected and tolerated. But lying out and out was not tolerated, even if insanity seemed to be part of the lying. There were standards enforced by the voters, and a basic trust that those elected had some sanity, truth in their words, and some interest in protecting our Country. We trusted our fellow citizens and their votes in their districts more than we do now, and not too many decades ago.

That not too long ago world seems long gone, with exceptions in many local areas in our Country. Most of the exceptions seem to be at the local levels, like counties and school boards that still consider the general good as a political consideration, or ensuring they pay their way to protect their and their kids futures.

First to the media. It is getting boringly repetitive to hear the economy is “the worst in X years” or similar things about every time we have a Presidential election. While many Americans may fall for this, many do not, especially if the facts don’t agree, to include where one lives. And in basic propaganda 101, many have lost respect and willingness to pay for this unprofessional reporting and conduct. While many in reporting media may be recent graduates of prestigious journalism schools and getting hired as a start job, one wonders when the light bulb will go on as to the average age and good looks of so many of these young people, and their expectations of being thrown on the ash heaps of growing older. And I still wonder just who decides which schools are “prestigious”. One suspects there will be many bitter people who have been shortchanged and overcharged in their journalism educations, all the while their professors enjoy their benefits and retirements. Once upon a time, the reporting media served a function of government, often called the 4th Estate. The function, their job, included looking out for conflicts of interest and basic pandering and stealing, and report it to the citizens for we to decide. And people paid for this by paper subscriptions, now more like Internet clicks, or whatever. And the media people were graduates of the school of hard knocks. Now those interested have to do what our 4th Estate used to do, again, not too many decades ago. And the idea is not to do muckraking, just basic investigative reporting when something doesn’t sound right. And a lot does not sound right, as in pass the smell test. Alas, most expect nothing much to change except for so many to go out of business, and so many to lose jobs.

Second to the politicians. A revolution is due in America, though not a civil war. A civil war means deaths and ambush fights; a revolution means votes. And much of America is at the local level, like the curriculum for our kid’s public educations. For decades we have been electing politicians to do our will. Now things have become politicians telling us how to live, and pay by the way with our money. Where their self confidence and self righteousness changed is still questionable as to timing. And things seem to have evolved to being more like the politicians, again we have elected them, playing with Monopoly funny money and dictating what we are do and what the future will be. This present group of politicians, is collectively, a bunch of losers at all levels, local, state, and federal. And if as we did we elected them in, so can we elect others to better represent us.

Voting them out is obvious as a better path to our American future. But most citizens and parents do not throw out the baby with the bath water. Hence we use our own common sense selecting politicians to achieve our objectives, local, state, and federal.

No body born in America probably ever thought of themselves as revolutionaries, but there we are.