Here's an idea.......
DON"T VOTE
It's a sucker's game. As far as I can recall, I've never looked back and thought to myself "I'm SO glad we got him/her into office, look at all the progress we've made". With the exception of one or two candidates that I've endorsed then forgotten about, it seems that every elected official I have ever seen voted into office has managed to somehow betray the platform they were supposedly elected to pursue. All the money, all the man hours invested for what? Simply to hire some scumbags who will do nothing that does not benefit themselves regardless of the commitments made to their constituency?
No, I didn't vote for Reagan, too young. Probably shouldn't have been allowed to vote anyhow.
Seems to me the one positive thing we got out of the 50's and 60's, besides rock & roll was the fact that activism works. The do not call registry act is a prime example. Elected officials know full well what we want from our various levels of government, they' re just not scared enough to provide it.
I wonder what our political climate would be if we collectively chose to cease denigrating each other for our political beliefs and turned that energy towards speaking our minds, LOUDLY, to those who we employ to serve our interests.
Maybe it's just too much trouble and not enough fun. It also bears the question of how we would select our leaders otherwise. I bet if we tried we could figure out a solution. We have proven amazingly adept at solving greater conundrums.
