Politics

     Elections are coming, they're right around the corner. Which means I cannot listen to the radio in the morning without a smattering of candidates commercials coming across the airwaves. When they first start airing it's ok because there would be only one played here or there. Now as we fast approach election day each commercial break is filled with them. I find I'm turning the radio off much earlier each day as I'm sick of listening to them.
     I don't care to hear that your opponent did A, B and C, so I should vote for you instead. What's good about you that I should vote for you? As far as I'm concerned I want to know about YOU, not your  opponent, in YOUR ads. Maybe your opponent plays dirty and creates those types of ads. Why do you have to? We all know there really is no more truth in advertising so I certainly can't believe much of anything from your commercials anyway. What's wrong with telling me about you in your own ads? Shouldn't you be promoting yourself not slamming your opponent to get votes? I think you should.
    Too bad I've yet to hear any type of ad like that. It's always who did or didn't do what and then paid for by the other guy. It's absolutely ridiculous! Maybe that's why so many of us don't bother going out to vote. There's no one to trust or believe in. No one who stands above the mud slinging worth leaving my nice warm house and going out to vote for. No one coming to your door to meet you and shake your hand. What happened to those days? We'll be stuck with one of you what difference does it make to me which mud slinger gets in? The lesser of two evils maybe?
     It sucks to say but our country is in a sorry state. I love it but I don't love what's happening to it. It's never easy to change or turn things around. But it's nice to have the hope that they will. Listening to the crap political commercials on the radio every day makes me want to run and hide under the covers. Under there, there's still hope things change and get better. I can't so I just turn off the radio. I think tomorrow I'll put my Meatloaf CD back on. Come election day it'll be what it'll be and when I hear who wins I'll have forgotten who was who. Who did or didn't do A, B and C. I don't know who any of you are. When you do something right maybe I'll learn. When you tell me who you are and not how bad the other guy is maybe I'll start to listen.