Since the election this past November everywhere I've gone people have been talking about the campaign and what the results mean for the future. We managed to dodge the bullet here in Virginia this past election, though the rest of the country didn't seem to fair quite as well. After years of being told we were going to be given more and taxed less, the arithmetic started to raise some obvious, troubling questions. All we need to do is get rid of these freeloaders, pray in school, and build more prisons. We need to give that trickle-down theory just one more try.
Same thing holds true in politics.
When we finally make it affordable for the average citizen to represent us in our federal government then we might get a government made up of people who will directly feel the consequences of the opportunistic, short-sighted changes we're being plied with. We didn't get into this mess in 100 days and we aren't going to get out of it in that period either. Telling us what we want to hear might get someone elected, but it ends up recycling one set of bums that you want to throw out for another. Now that the Cold War has thawed out we need an enemy. Saddam worked for a while.