I have decided to quit
listening to Chris Matthews on MSNBC.
Up until this week my wife and I would tune into Chris while we ate
supper. After his program I always feel
like lowering my head and charging into the wall.
And what for?
Why get wound up over
something I have absolutely no power to change – and change to what? The reality is that I have no option but to
live through political changes I have no power to influence.
I do not have money enough to
buy my Senators and Congress Persons…
Presidential elections are decided not by my vote but by an electoral
college appointed by political parties; and as far as a popular vote, it is
obvious that that can be, and is being manipulated on a state level by these
same political parties.
And even if my vote did
count; a small, organized, vocal minority - the Republican minions (also known
and the Tea Party and the Christian Fundamentalist – people who are capable of
believing that Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin are intelligent choices to
govern us) can influence one of the only two viable political parties we have
as a choice to the shithouse rat crazy extremes – which in turn can be
manipulated by the billionaires whose actual goal is to establish an Oligarchy..
(Wow what a fucking
sentence! I think I will leave it alone
and won’t edit…)
I will still listen to Rachel
Maddow – she doesn’t rant and rave – and to Bill Maher and Vice on HBO for the
WOW factor of crazy shithouse rat political machinations, which are nothing if
not entertaining.
Politics to me is a
voyeuristic sport, like professional football; something I have absolutely no
power or ability to influence. But,
just because I am not capable of participating on any meaningful level does not
mean that I don’t find it entertaining.
I just don’t need to get wound up over something I can not control.
Spring is coming to western Maine
Have a good day
the Ol’Buzzard
