About a week to go.

 There's about a week to go before the election. Ive voted for the last 40 years in all different types of elections. Ive even run for local office myself and won. If there's one thing Ive learned its that its never as dire as the losing side predicts afterwords. Until now. Given a worst case scenario when the republican seize control of the house and the senate, the less than favorable presidential numbers, there is the real chance we could be screwed like permanently. 

We saw during the trump presidency, while everyone was making orange jokes and commenting on everything from his lack of class and sophistication to what can only be described as fondling his daughter, the making fun of the disabled ....there are far too many to name, he was naming conservative judges. The same people he named came before the senate panel and lied, lied and lied again about very important things such as a woman's right to choose. Most disappointingly they were confirmed and the same people they lied to sat back and clutched their pearls yelling "they lied" and were completely powerless to do anything about it. 

The candidate's lie and whats disheartening is the nonchalance in how they do it. As if no one will fact check them, they tell whoppers worthy of the burger King himself Donald Trump. The facts are checked but by them the 30 second attention span of the average American has moved on and the lie becomes truth. Facts are twisted or simply made up and are accepted by a people addicted to instant gratification. Go out to eat...look around the room and see how many people are using their phones for everything but phone calls. Faster phones..more memory ..faster connections..got to have the information as it happens..and the media plays along. The news cycle has gone from days or weeks to minutes. Trump knew this and I'll give him credit for it..when some article came out about him being caught doing something, he would do something or say something crazy just to distract the media and us. He would do this knowing it would disappear very quickly. Its the same with these candidates. Hershel Walker has got a whole bunch of stuff in his past. Lying about his achievements, the abortions he's supposedly payed for then campaigned as pro life. Its a fairly long list..but the voters dont seem to care. Oz, the same sort of story..against John Fetterman who recently had a stroke and suffered through a difficult debate with Oz. I dont think for a moment Oz knows a thing about Pennsylvania or politics and it would be a grave mistake to elect him. The question they should be asking is Oz, a better man than Fetterman was before?..He will after all improve and there's a hell of a lot more to being a senator than standing at a poduim debating. Anyone who watches C-Span should know that.  

We'll see what happens and on Wednesday morning we will know the course of our country for the next 2 -6 years. Lets hope for the best and VOTE!

Ramblings...

Its been alittle while since I got to sit down and write something. I was watching the Jan6th committee meetings today and the thought still ran through my mind as it did on Jan6th in that if this were any other country in the world and they attacked the capital, the military would have opened up on them and very quickly ended the uprising. Since we live in America where we seem to have an amazing tolerance for everything but people who are different, short prison sentences in most likely country club jail seem to be the lesson learned and presidential pardons. The republican politicians who seemed to so quickly run for their lives , just as quickly decided it was no big deal. Seeing the video's from that day and days after then months after, what a difference. 

Today's politician seems to be willing to trade everything that makes them a moral and responsible human being for power and money. Most if not all are already millionaires so what is driving them?..its power. The power to force people to live their lives how others see fit. The legislation passed in the last few months taking away a woman's right to choose what happens to and in her own body with little or no exceptions. Rumors of the supreme court "re-considering" hard won civil rights for the LGBTQ+ community and as usual the voting rights of (usually) minorities and the poor of all races. The voting rights are endangered (as usual) to help keep those in power in power. Its the same reason we dont have term limits. The people in power are going to pass legislation limiting themselves to a few terms? hardly. 

          We are at fault for the most part because we continue to elect these fools and they know who they are. Politicians who show up during the election cycle and promise the moon then disappear until the next cycle. Every state has them. None of the 50 are immune to this. With all the social media out there the best we can do is complain about Biden or Trump or whatever idiot is in the stupidity spotlight that week. Dont get me wrong , Several senators spend months seemingly basking the light of Idiocrasy. A massive Ice storm strands thousands in the dark and cold, their senator splits to Cancun. A governor spends desperately needed funds for a political stunt to ship 50+ immigrants to Martha's vineyard and sit back in horror as they are welcomed by the residents. Who would have thought. They didnt even have to decency to call ahead but somehow FoxNews was there at the airport. 

Back to the Jan6th thing. If this were indeed another country, I'd like to think the powers that be wouldnt be afraid to do what should be done. What is the fear that strikes these people ?...I wish some would tell me..