The electorate.

The whole diverse aggregate gives me pause.

Lots of dipshits.

Exactly what kind of country are we when our elected representatives can even stage a fight about continuing the egregious enrichment of the already too wealthy via a government complicit in unconscionable concentration of wealth long since institutionalized, while simultaneously getting away with jerking the carpet from beneath our middle class when they very simply cannot find a job because the jobs just aren’t there? Five people for every one job. Every dollar in unemployment remuneration is an immediate dollar sixty spent in local economies while every dollar given in tax breaks to them that have plenty amounts to about thirty cents for our national economy.

The tax cuts for the rich have already cost us dearly and will add $700 billion to the deficit over the next decade. Our wars cost us at least ten billion a month. But we demonize the unemployed, unions and teachers without ever talking about our insane megalomaniacally drunken defense spending. It never comes up that we damn near outspend the rest of the world. Instead the dialog is driven by “Entitlements” like Social Security and Medicare.

Proof of stupid is our war economy.

Fareed Zakaria said something like it’s not policy, it’s math.

Exactly.

Trickle down economics my ass.

If you buy any single argument in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy while opposing the extension of unemployment benefits for those they deliberately victimized, your entire head resembles a dirty ass to those of us with any amount of common sense and compassion. You’re quite likely dumb as a stick, willfully ignorant and I loathe you.

It’s true the difference between Democrats and complete assholes narrows by the hour. Democrats are fond of seeming to stand for something while vehemently pontificating in favor thereof. Yet they’re infamous for caving and compromising to gain nothing while willingly playing a zero sum game and selling out or at the very least acting worthless and weak. Stumbling leadership. Wholesale lack of efficacy. Disorganization. Absence of conviction or courage. Embarrassing inability to legislate with even a modicum of authority despite a majority in both houses and the presidency.

Losers. Punks. Low T.

Okay, that’s not entirely true but perception is nine tenths of reality because Democrats couldn’t sell ears to the deaf.

Republicans on the other hand are consistently able to be stupid, contradictory and hypocritical. Yet they still steer wheel with foot firmly on the gas of our national agenda. Republicans routinely sell binoculars and telescopes to the blind. They blaspheme in unison. They applaud each other and delight in doing so. It’s like they know they suck and they don’t care.

Democrats suck but at least they make a show of giving a shit.

Are Americans stupid? Yes. Are we fools? Yes. Are we paying attention? I seriously doubt it. Do we believe just about everything we see, hear or read? Apparently.

What’s that spell?

Campaign finance reform.

What if each and every candidate had the same amount to spend, the same amount of media access and were somehow held more culpable for the truth of their message? Could a fortuitous artifact of that be the great unwashed being forced to be more accountable and responsible for their own opinions? What if it forced them a little further down the lane of paying attention? Like reading and understanding The Constitution before claiming to be all about it while demonstrating abject ignorance of it to the obvious end of actually denigrating it?

What if all the lobbyists lost their jobs?

That wouldn’t suck.

What if it forced a potential player into some amount of shoe gazing introspection about qualification and intention? At the very least it just might preclude the Meg Whitmans from the already vulgar burlesque.

What if the media was somehow inspired to be more, dare I say, fair and balanced?

I have this Utopian notion about a Utopian notion.

Like the media would take it upon itself to be a little less sensationally streptococcus because some sweeping new campaign finance reform passed. I’ll be on the front porch carving my first name into my left foot ’cause I’m right handed.

The thing is, this issue of of campaign finance reform should be the issue of the day. It is the antidote for at least a cod piece load of this bullshit. The corruption and avarice of our elected mannequins won’t ever be eliminated but can it be mitigated?

It could be. It has huge potential gravity for a following of the sensible but pissed off. That would be me at least. It really is of the nucleus of everything that’s jacked up about how we’re governed.

CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

See, it just can’t be about wealth. It can’t have anything to do with it.

Solve this one and it has tentacles. Legs.

I’m waiting for monkey’s to emerge and then launch from my butt trailing fire and plumes, cackling and whooping.

C’mon. Are you sick of this shit? There are at least four health care lobbyists for every elected representative on the hill. That’s just one of a myriad of special interests that are there to give anything but a mad fuck about what we Americans need and deserve. There are tens of thousands of them. I guess this all makes me a socialist. Forgive me, I just don’t have a problem with that.

Drinks for my friends.