A Non-Voter's Manifesto

Today it was revealed that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, lied about his service in the Vietnam War. Let's forget for a moment about the insult to those who actually served in Vietnam. (And if you are doubting me look here.) This revelation may very well be the nail in the coffin for the Democrats in 2010, and it is sufficed to say that Connecticut's Senate seat has a much better chance of going to a Republican. This is one of many scandals affecting Democrats this year. Just type in the name Charles Rangel into Google and you will understand what I am talking about. Let's not forget the dirty tactics that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama used to pass the massive healthcare bill. And just yesterday Nancy Pelosi told musicians that you can quit your job because of the health care bill and "follow your aspirations." Apparently that means if your aspirations are smoking weed and playing bongo drums all day the taxpayers have your back. Democrats have been plagued for years as being the party of slackers and hippies instead of hardworking Americans, and apparently they would like to live up to it.

2010 is not a new phenomenon. 2006 was much the same way for Republicans. Jack Abramoff's lobbying scandal, Mark Foley's gay scandal, and all of Bush's scandals added up to make it a very bad year. Democrats came in to "save" us from the corruption of the Republicans and failed to live up to their own standards. Now we expect the same Republicans to come in and take over and clean up even though for years ago they were making the mess. That being said I've always believed we should have a Congress the opposite party of the President so I hope Republicans win, but that doesn't mean I'm going to be participating in it.

There are a few good politicians out there running this year. Ron Paul will be reelected to Congress. I suspect his son Rand will be elected to the Senate. There is a congressional candidate named Bill Cooper running in my district I like. He told my friend not to trust him, because you can never trust a politician. That is principle. Still the Pauls and Coopers of the world are few and far between. It is 99% of politicians that give the other 1% a bad name. The people who are attracted to politics are maybe 1% of the population but they are generally the lowest common denominator, it just so happens that you have the occasional outlier but that is the way with everything.

If you've followed me in the past you might have understood that a while back I was quite interested in politics. I am not any longer. Over the past year I have become incredibly jaded. I have become jaded because of how bad it has gotten in the past few years. Here you had a party corrupt to the hilt replaced by another party promising to get rid of that corruption and four years later you have the previous party campaigning to clean up the mess that the other party made worse from their mess in the first place. If you see nothing wrong with that picture there is something wrong with you. Still, this is the way it has been over the generations. I have simply chosen no longer to participate.

Some will call me lazy or unpatriotic for not caring anymore. Think of this though, your vote does not count. Out of thousands of votes cast yours has a next to zero chance of deciding the election. And by next to zero I mean less than one thousandth of a percent and probably less than a billionth of a percent at the presidential level. The bottom line is that there are far better things to focus on than politics. Start trying to improve your life because politicians cannot. Perhaps if more people think this way and quit putting their trust in politicians we can finally have the country we need. The only way things will be fixed is if we quit trusting other people to run our lives. Until that happen, I'll be happy to sit it out.