Bought & Sold: Time To Fold?

With the U.S. media and politicians focused so deeply on the 2012 election, following poll after poll to gage each party’s worthiness and chances of winning overshadowing the reality of where the USA stands on the all important “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” mantra, is it at all a question in anyone’s mind why nothing gets done in the current political climate? This question, observation, is certainly not new and is a focus of many a blogger and Op-Ed columnist's jabs.

I’m taking it on because it is slightly daunting to me to turn on one of my favorite news TV channels to find the primary focus of a square table interview to be on President Obama’s poll numbers and those of the currently unsettled GOP mix of presidential hopefuls. Okay. I get it. It’s important to watch what’s happening when upcoming GOP events loom to set the stage for someone to win the pageant and go on to challenge the Democrat currently in the Oval Office.

However, when constant campaigning is the raison d'etre for most of Washington DC, what kind of leadership do we end up with? No leadership, really. Nothing more than a group of Type A megalomaniacs beholden to monied backers dashing around to cover their arses rather than doing a bloody thing other than obstruction and caving-in to pressures when forced to be decisive.

And what is at the bottom of it all? Money. It may seem that there is a grand divide on social issues; on who deems what as a moral crusade against a debauched America. No. It is all about money – who owns who and what their agenda may be – that rules the game. Rules our lives. Ruins our freedom and the right to have fair representation by those we vote into positions to make important decisions on how the country is run.

It’s not working anymore. Period. Simple. It’s over. The great sleeping populace is awake. Ripped from Ivory Mental Towers and self-absorption or unwillingness to see the other side of life’s unpredictable coin, the recent debt ceiling fight and subsequent credit downgrade, has found once-closed ears listening, and what they’re learning is not boosting confidence.

The above knowledge doesn’t indicate that everyone will dash to the streets with signs and in-person protest zeal, but it does signify a shift in perception, which adds to the growing, currently under-the-radar attraction to creating groups of dissidence comprised of people from both political parties preparing to make their presence known.

Who wouldn’t want change after fully digesting this information? Career Politicians and More

Bleck!