As so well written about in the blog Grumpy old men (or why the death of the walkman is bad) « The Full Catastrophe, the walkman joined record players, 8 tracks, and reel to reels in being retired this week.
Sad that a part of my youth goes with it.
But these items served there purpose, and when they no longer had the ability to be of any use to the world, they were discarded.
I honestly didn't know they were still making tapes, and was kind of surprised that they were still making walkmans, to be honest.
But with the elections coming up, it made me think of something else I'd like to see go the way of the walkman, as it's usefulness has been done for quite some time now.
Politicians.
As far as I'm concerned, they served their purpose (whatever that was) and they can go away now.
We can retire them, kill them off, ship them to other countries, as long as we stop making them.
I feel like I'm trapped in a vicious cycle.
The state of the world sucks, and the Democrats blame the Republicans, who are in control (of congress, the White House, Governor's Mansion, you name it).
So the next election, because we are all sick and tired of the way things are, we listen to this message of change and run out and vote Democrat.
Then a few years later, the world still sucks, no one is happy, so the Republicans say it's the Dems fault, and that they are going to really get it right this time and change things.
And we all run out and vote Republican.
See where this is going? Well I'm tired of it.
Neither on feels like change anymore.
I mean, I can take a shit in the bowl, or I can take an upper-decker (a shit in the top tank of the toilet) and tell you how much different what I'm doing is than what has been done before.
But it's still shit.
Still looks like shit, still smells like shit, still tastes like shit (totally guessing on this one.
hope I never have to taste it - out of the bowl or the tank).
I want real change.
I had my mind made up (I thought) that I wasn't going to vote next Tuesday.
How could I vote? I don't want either of them.
I used to say I was voting for the lesser of two evils, but I don't even feel that way anymore.
Now it just seems like I'm voting for the bowl or the tank.
But I do believe in voting, and I wasn't happy about not doing it at all.
After all, I want to exercise my opinion and my right, and let them know what I truly think.
So I came up with only one logical course of action - I'm going to go in to the voting booth, and put a write in candidate for every single position being elected.
Who shall I write in? Me, of course (I don't think I'm some genius that can solve all our problems, but I fit all the qualifications I want in our next elected official, as I'll get to in a minute).
It's the only way I can vote, and have it actually be for something I believe in.
It's exercising my voice to say "suck it" to the establishment, which is too established to serve any good purpose for the people anymore.
I told you I want rid of politicians.
What the hell are politicians anyway? People groomed (possibly from birth and never actually had a real job) to be good at politics? Well politics to me is the art of scratching backs, making strange bedfellows, and all around giving up what you stand for over here, to get what you want over there.
That doesn't work for me.
I don't want to elect anymore politicians.
I don't want anymore change I can't believe in.
I don't care what job the next person I elect has held prior, as long as they aren't a politician.
I don't have all the answers to our problems.
I'm not even sure what's good for the majority is good for everyone anymore (I'll have to attack that in another blog, or no one will ever finish reading this one).
But what I know is I want someone to stand up and give it to me straight.
Someone to stand up and tell me when they don't know, and not pretend to have all the answers.
Someone who doesn't give up on fighting for the little guy at the expense of big business, just because they won't have advertising money next campaign if they do (I half believe that if anyone actually tried to change the way things work in D.
C.
that they would be assassinated).
So yes, I could do those things.
Damn, I'd vote for Elle Woods right now.
Throughout our short history as a country, our parties have changed.
When one stopped working, another rose up to take it's place.
Well the Dems and Reps have been around longer than any other parties have ever lasted, and I think it's time for a change.
We need a new party of people that actually want reform, change, a complete overhaul of everything, whatever.
We can call the party the Wipers.
We'll let the Republicans shit in the bowl, the Democrats shit in the tank, and we can come through and wipe up the mess our asses are in.