Everybody wants to Rule the World...

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Unfortunately not all of them are qualified to do so.


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I've been listening. Some of what I'm hearing would be funny if it were a play (maybe a farce). But it's not and that's disheartening to say the least. So instead of trying to get, you , the reader to agree with my political choices? I'm going to say one piece of advice that's carried me through...

"This too will pass."




What I've seen about this election has been less about issues and more about a growing anger with no real place to direct it. LOL. I think TV's Craig Ferguson said it best when he said he was glad to see the World Series because we could stop being mad at each other and start being mad @ baseball. I can relate. This weekend we were at a homestore when I asked the clerk (in passing mind you) if she knew the score on the two state college football teams. Her response was so filled with tension and anger that I had to wonder if I'd kicked her cat. Honestly? I'd never seen this person before and I'm not paranoid. There was no way I could have made her this angry. "How could this woman be so angry with me? I don't know her name nor does she know mine." was what I was thinking as she scowled at me. Yes scowled. There's no other way to put it. I stopped and asked if she were okay. There were comments about management and how things would change come Monday. There was that anger. The one where people were just mad.

In the South, if this were summer, I could blame it on the heat and the humidity. After 6 weeks of intense heat, folks start getting touchy. No matter why you're angry you can reliably blame it on the heat and go find somewhere to literally cool off, but not this time of year. This isn't "summer heat" angry. This is different. This is "My life is not going..." -- no -- this is "My life is crap at the moment and there's no specific person or thing to blame so I'm going to blame it on anyone who's around me at the moment" anger. It's been coming for some time. Personally I think it's what started the French Revolution.

Lucky for us we have elections and not monarchs. Thanks to the US Constitution we have a kind of peaceful revolution every four to six years depending on the branch of government. Long before we get to the point of the French Revolution, new groups, like the Tea Party, emerge. France during the years leading up to the French Revolution didn't have that luxury. Where they kept getting more and more angry until the populace revolted, we have peaceful elections. Again, lucky us.

My only problem with this is that when people are this angry the mantra, "Throw the bums out" can result in a kind of "voter's remorse". The problem with this is that unless they do something impeachable, unlike "buyer's remorse" it's a long 2, 4, or 6 years before you can send the new "bum" back.


"Throw the bums out." isn't a new phrase.

So is "Don't throw the baby out with the dirty bath water."


Everyone wants to rule the world.

Not to be discouraged if your guy or gal doesn't win. This is America. Lucky for us there's always another election just 2, 4, or 6 years away.


Hugs.