I now know what bothers me these days at my core with regard to politics. It is not the telephone calls in the evening, asking me how I am going to vote, so that the information can be reported to media outlets for dissemination into the American psyche in the hopes that they WILL vote just like the polls SAY everyone is voting. I can simply ignore my telephone and not answer, though I should not have to. Sorry true friends. Just leave a message.
It isn't the television advertisements destroying the mood of an otherwise fabulously and intellectually intriguing episode of Bones, for which I have had zero time lately to indulge. I could turn my television off, though I should not have to.
It isn't the droves of paper and wood product decorating my neighbors' yards, faking me out as I come around the corner, thinking another "for sale" sign has gone up.
It IS this: Made clear in a CNN news article this morning at 3:53 a.m. titled, "Congress OKs Stop Gap Spending, Ready to Go Home", I find the clearest answer, so understated as to be completely missed...almost. The summary text, as far as I've gotten yet, reads, "Before shutting down for campaigns, Congress on Thursday passed a measure to fund the government another 2 months." As a side note, wow...didn't know funding was such an easy thing, but I digress.
I now know with sudden clarity and complete certainty what has bothered me in increasing measure all these years of my adult political life - it is that Congress is more concerned with campaigning than with running the country. They care not one iota about DOING their job. They just wanna campaign for the job, not really DO the job. The culture of our government leaders has shifted from service to the people to some form of self-preservation, the likes of which are publicly touted in the news as simple "fact", ..... and no one even notices.
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