Government Daycare
I was talking with my father in law the other day during our weekly pinochle game about politics. Yes, I know everyone is talking about politics now a day, but this is a little different. My father in law was a staunch conservative republican almost all his life. Now in his later years he’s still a rabid conservative but he’s change to a conservative libertarian.
When I first move here and my wife and I “hooked up”, I registered to vote as a libertarian, mainly to make points with him. Politics has never been a real interest of mine. I’ve voted democrat because they seemed less fanatical at the time. However, as I learned more about the party and its philosophy I started to buy the party line. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it and if I’m not hurting anyone other then maybe myself don’t tell me how to live my own freakin’ life.
Back to the conversation, he and I were talking about the stupid knee-jerk reaction of the political parties today. This childish insanity of us and them and never, never NEVER give the other side a listen, a thought or do anything but reject everything they do out of hand. Yes I mean Dems as well as Reps.
Health care, war, social security, diplomacy, immigration, education… the list is endless and the subject is irrelevant. They have an idea we reject and ridicule it. Does it matter if it’s important? NO! Does it matter if it makes sense? NO! They suggested it; therefore it’s evil and must be destroyed. Holy Backroom Dealings, Batman! Washington has become a daycare center. Only these spoiled children hold our country in their hands.
I’ve watched new stories about people disrupting meeting and gatherings where our elected officials are trying to explain what the hell they’ve been doing. The very same people who, not 2 years ago, decried anyone who dared interrupt them as un-American. Catch 22 anyone? I’ve watched the not-news like Stewart and Colbert and SNL who seem to be the only ones with the brass to look at this and say WTF???
So maybe we do need a third party after all. Come 2012 I’m voting the straight Babysitter Party.
I was talking with my father in law the other day during our weekly pinochle game about politics. Yes, I know everyone is talking about politics now a day, but this is a little different. My father in law was a staunch conservative republican almost all his life. Now in his later years he’s still a rabid conservative but he’s change to a conservative libertarian.
When I first move here and my wife and I “hooked up”, I registered to vote as a libertarian, mainly to make points with him. Politics has never been a real interest of mine. I’ve voted democrat because they seemed less fanatical at the time. However, as I learned more about the party and its philosophy I started to buy the party line. Of course it had my own spin on it.
Back to the conversation, he and I were talking about the stupid knee-jerk reaction of the political parties today. This childish insanity of us and them and never, never NEVER give the other side a listen, a thought or do anything but reject everything they do out of hand. Yes I mean Dems as well as Reps.
Health care, war, social security, diplomacy, immigration, education… the list is endless and the subject is irrelevant. They have an idea we reject and ridicule it. Does it matter if it’s important? NO! Does it matter if it makes sense? NO! They suggested it; therefore it’s evil and must be destroyed. Man Washington has become a daycare center. Only these spoiled children hold our country in their hands.
I’ve watched new stories about people disrupting meeting and gatherings where our elected officials are trying to explain what the hell they’ve been doing. The very same people who, not 2 years ago, decried anyone who dared interrupt them as un-American. Catch 22 anyone? I’ve watched the not-news like Stewart and Colbert and SNL who seem to be the only ones with the brass to look at this and say WTF???
So maybe we do need a third party after all. Come 2012 I’m voting the straight Babysitter Party.
