One Day Left

Once there were many and dreams soared like eagles. Hats were tossed into the ring like popcorn to pigeons. Early rounds of the Sunday morning TV studios and cable networks were made. Stump here, debate there. Favorites and long shots lined up in front of red white and blue banners to tout their plans and promise us hope while pot-shotting the opponents. It was too much, too early to pay attention to for most. We never saw it coming.

A caucus, a primary and a convention later, from the crowd emerged two contenders. The process clearly illustrated that Darwin’s theory of evolution doesn’t work in the political arena. For the past two years we’ve endured the campaigns of the strong and the weak, the financially powerful and the grass-rooted meek, the media backed and the media shunned. We’ve tuned into radio, read the newspapers, watched television and surfed the Internet to be entertained, amused, befuddled and disgusted. Pundits, pollsters, anchors and reporters, newscasters and radio shows hosts cut, sliced, diced to serve up their opinions. We never saw it coming.

We heard the hollow arguments, the inept logic, the empty reasoning, the simple stupid “feelings”, the unabashed emotion. We saw the wide-eyed acceptance of discounted truth and swallowed-up lies. We wondered why the “other side” just doesn’t get it. And we never saw it coming?

Tired, worn out and disillusioned, we want to get it over with. We just want to move ahead. We want to get on with life. Not a life we knew, but a life of change, where we don’t worry about putting gas in the car, or paying the mortgage, or putting our kids through college. Our kids don’t even have to go to college now, because who needs to work? Health care is free. Everything comes on a silver platter. We’ll be poor!

Hell, what are you waiting for? Get out and vote. At least let that be the last credible thing you do for yourself.