In a blog today, someone "When did running for president get unfair, rude, predictable, tiresome, and most of all patronizing and condescending?" The short answer is; since day one, or at least the election of 1796 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. It was nasty, but in a more genteel way; duels were the quick fix of the era.The real good stuff started with the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828. This was the beginning of today's Democratic Party, but was nothing like the soft and semi-liberal party of today. Jackson was an "anything goes" president as far as his friends and supporters were concerned. To cross him was political suicide; just ask Davy Crockett of Alamo fame. Jackson reigned in the banking system which was good, but he hadn't fully understood all the consequences. Jackson also removed the Southern Indians (Native Americans) from their ancestral lands to reservations in Oklahoma. This was so his big political "donors" could control the lands. Jackson was a Tennessean, but I'm none too proud of his presidency.
Ever since Jackson, things have gotten worse; so much so I have tuned out of the "system" and instead, I do everything I can to pull it down. I refuse to be a part of anything so degrading as American politics.
I could go on with this for pages and pages, but like you, I would soon be bored, and also I would be mad on a beautiful day that deserves better.
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Two months from today will be the first full day of SPRING. Just 62 more days! Politics be damned!
2 comments:
i feel sorry for you ken your electrol systom seems to go on forever it will be on our newes as well every night i did listen a little the other day only because it was north or soulth carolina and i said to milly its near to where ken lives in tennesee .over here the elected members of parliment vote for there own leader then when thay decide to have a general ellection the different partys then campaign for a month or so then we vote on one night the leader of the party that win the most seats then is the next prime minister, and the whole thing is done and dusted. john
Man, I wish it was so simple here; but money does the electing. The hell of it is, we don't get to vote for a candidate in actuality. We vote for electors who then go to Washington DC and vote for whomever most people in the state chose. Unless my candidate wins the state electors, my vote does not count. Idiot Bush was beaten by the actual vote count in 2000, but he had the electors from the big states to get him in.
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