election

I am sure that many of the pundits will slice and dice the election costing billions yesterday. Each will declare an epiphany of political savvy. None will declare that they actually voted or that their vote counted. None will decry the billions spent on campaigns filled with smear, misdirection, and outright lies. All will declare that their side won - even in a loss. Torches will be passed to the new representative or senator with grace, aplomb and civility with a set of rules defined by chivalric and Victorian courtesies. Crap! It is all crap. We as citizens do not really get to elect fair, impartial and representative advocates of our needs. America ignored the upcoming recession as they overbought houses, overextended their own credit and bought anything Chinese from Wal-Mart. We lived in a bubble of false security, a propensity for fooling ourselves that everything will be OK, and the US of A will always be safe from economic or physical harm.

Consider that the same politicians (in effect) lost Viet Nam; can't really do anything about terrorism except throw money at Homeland Security and hope the cash will mix with someone's blood, make a slurry and dry to create impenatrable adobe blocks that will somehow also solve the illegal alien issues; are still clueless about the current recession; and, likely ignore the people that they pledge to serve.