Chapter 8: The Sheep Live

The whole election process over the last 8 years now has really just been a complete and utter disappointment to the democratic system. First, with media being as accessible as it is now, there is no reason we should drag elections out for so long. It now takes almost a year and in that year our entire nation gets torn in half.

The demon side of people come out and it ends up a rat race of popularity and media controlled influences. These are decent people who are volunteering to lead our nation. And yes, there are some who are more qualified than others but none deserve to be completely disrespected to the point of personal abuse.

The sexism and ageism in this country is outrageous. Had the media gone after the race card, do you think this country would have stood for it? Absolutely not. And I'm a firm liberal and am entirely ashamed of all the other media-sponge, liberal-turned-sheep heads out there. Grow up! This is a fucking Presidential Election.

Stop looking at the skin, sex, age of the person and actually look at their platform, economic plan, or NON- plan. Look at their history of leadership and background on foreign policy or their stance on government spending.

THOSE are the things that will matter coming from the future President of the United States. The more the media twists this into their free-for-all reality TV show, the more the politicians can't focus on the real issues at hand.

Last night's debate, they were talking about abortion and education reform. This is a sinking ship. We are a great sinking ship as a nation. I want a leader who knows how to fix the gaping hole that's causing us to sink. I don't want to talk about how we're gonna add a pool to the top deck or improve room service.

There's not one politician in this run for president who seems to be willing to admit that mom and dad have spent all of our money and we're living on massive credit debt. And the answer isn't to charge more!

Am I crazy? Do I not understand economics? Is it OKAY for us to continue to spend billions and trillions per year that we don't have?? Is the answer to all our problems to throw more money into the fire?

In any case, I have no idea who I'm voting for this year. And it's a shame that the media decided to turn this into their own personal boy-toy of the year game. I don't think it's going to matter who is the next President. Neither one of them has the balls to do what really needs to be done. And that's tell the kids, I'm sorry but for the first time, I'm going to have to say NO you can't buy that we simply don't have the money.

Maybe reality skews from a micro to macro level.