"Are you all gonna go out and vote? I wish my vote meant something, but what the fuck does it mean? Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny! Cartoon characters! The puppet strings are being pulled by the same people, over and over again..." Jello Biafra, lead singer of The Dead Kennedys, October 31, 1984, Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IllinoisIt’s primarily Election Day here in Illinois, although primarily it still is important, for all parties concerned. The voters never seem to come out in droves like they do for the general election though and why is that? Perhaps they feel it’s just that it’s not the big a deal.
Although the current sitting Democratic governor has a challenger this year, I believe the governor will easily defeat him. The Republican candidates on the other hand, seem to have more at stake and course, what would a political campaign be without a good old-fashioned name bashing fight?
I’m not sure it matters that the four candidates, who fought it out, fail to realize that whether they behave like conservatives or moderate Republicans, more people seem to look at how they conduct themselves overall.
Election campaigns are famous as well as infamous for running notoriously hateful campaign television and radio commercials and really if you think about it, blatant hateful words only confuse a voter more and only makes the potential candidate look like an ass, but if you think you've seen the last of these ads, buddy, think again! You'll be seeing them from now until the General Election in November.
Their behavior especially publicly and privately seems to indicate that some of the candidates could care less about the overall public, caring only instead for public opinion polls and their selfish professional persona.
No such thing as an honest politician, as they go directly for the throat when they promise us the world and bring us back nothing but a bucketful of dirty salt water. Then again there are some politicians (and friends of theirs) who bill themselves as clean and honest and what we end up with is a celebrity politician who is all talk and show. The kind of man or woman who gives the people nothing in return, for after all it is for the people and by the people who vote to elect a candidate to office. That being said, junior Illinois senator Barak Obama should resign his senate seat.
But politics is a tricky business run by tricky people, looking for a few extra tricks on the side, while selling as many tricks as they can get away with selling. At least former Illinois governor George Ryan was exposed for his bottomless pit of dirty tricks, as well as late President Richard Nixon and an entire slew of others who lost their trust from their citizens who believed in them at one point.
Trust is important to the American public and once a person betrays their trust, others will do everything in their power to expose them and destroy their persona. Exposure is good to a degree, for once the truth is exposed, your soul will forever remain free.
There’s an election in Israel next week too. I certainly hope the citizens of the American-sponsored country will exercise their rights to vote as well. Anyone who doesn’t vote should be deported from his or her respective countries. Despite what they say in the press and what many believe in the public eye, voting is a privilege, so use it and don’t lose it.
