Every generation has its emotional political litmus tests. The current political hostilities between parties and candidates, however, exceed any reasonable justification. Civil discourse does not exist. More discouraging is that the electorate does not reject such behavior and seems to accept sound bites as substance. Perhaps as the result of such conditions few truly capable candidates appear to be running.
In Florida the race for the Republican nomination for governor is Rick Scott a former CEO of a health care company who is using his personal fortune to sell the message that government needs to be run like a business and it should eliminate government regulation of business. While CEO, his former company committed massive fraud on the government for which the company was fined almost 2 billion dollars. This is the largest fine ever levied against an entity. I guess the message is: a vote for me is a vote for more privatization so more corporate fraud can be perpetrated on the residents of this state. His opponent is a career politician whose most recent signature activity as attorney general was in spending hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to fund expert testimony regarding the dangers of homosexual behavior in lawsuits opposing gays from adopting children or serving as foster parents. The male expert, however, takes European trips with male escorts.
In the Democrat Senate race one candidate is a recent playboy billionaire transplant from California who is best known for paling around the Balkans with Michael Tyson and prostitutes when his yachts are not destroying reefs off of Belize. His opponent is a congressman who claims that he spoke with his mother about a company who paid her hundreds of thousands of dollars while he lobbied on behalf of the company in Congress.
Candidates do not debate. Candidates do not let allow interviews with neutral editorial boards. Candidates simply spend millions of dollars on television ads that demonize their opponents or portray simplistic appealing messages that are wholly inaccurate. We are reaching an era where the term politician and statesman will be considered antonyms.
We are facing economic challenges for countries throughout the world. Our deficit spending is growing exponentially to the “horror” of all candidates who wish to solve the deficit by reducing government revenue ie taxes. We blame the government for failing to prevent the gulf disaster, to provide adequate education, or to reduce traffic congestion. Our solution is to reduce government.
Somehow in spite of these conditions our system still seems to work better than any other alternative. Even so, It is still really depressing to incur another political season. We could offer so much more.
Every generation has its emotional political litmus tests. The current political hostilities between parties and candidates, however, exceed any reasonable justification. Civil discourse does not exist. More discouraging is that the electorate does not reject such behavior and seems to accept sound bites as substance. Perhaps as the result of such conditions few truly capable candidates appear to be running.
In Florida the race for the Republican nomination for governor is Rick Scott a former CEO of a health care company who is using his personal fortune to sell the message that government needs to be run like a business and it should eliminate government regulation of business. While CEO, his former company committed massive fraud on the government for which the company was fined almost 2 billion dollars. This is the largest fine ever levied against an entity. I guess the message is: a vote for me is a vote for more privatization so more corporate fraud can be perpetrated on the residents of this state. His opponent is a career politician whose most recent signature activity as attorney general was in spending hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to fund expert testimony regarding the dangers of homosexual behavior in lawsuits opposing gays from adopting children or serving as foster parents. The male expert, however, takes European trips with male escorts.
In the Democrat Senate race one candidate is a recent playboy billionaire transplant from California who is best known for paling around the Balkans with Michael Tyson and prostitutes when his yachts are not destroying reefs off of Belize. His opponent is a congressman who claims that he spoke with his mother about a company who paid her hundreds of thousands of dollars while he lobbied on behalf of the company in Congress.
Candidates do not debate. Candidates do not let allow interviews with neutral editorial boards. Candidates simply spend millions of dollars on television ads that demonize their opponents or portray simplistic appealing messages that are wholly inaccurate. We are reaching an era where the term politician and statesman will be considered antonyms.
We are facing economic challenges for countries throughout the world. Our deficit spending is growing exponentially to the “horror” of all candidates who wish to solve the deficit by reducing government revenue ie taxes. We blame the government for failing to prevent the gulf disaster, to provide adequate education, or to reduce traffic congestion. Our solution is to reduce government.
Somehow in spite of these conditions are system still seems to work better than any other alternative. It is still really depressing to incur another political season.
