Election Day USA

Here we are--the election is just a few days away and all I can feel is apathy. I have been beaten into the ground by all the yelling, lying, fingerpointing, and just plain hate mongering. I have seen far more of the ugly parts of my fellow human beings than I could ever want to. It has been a bloodbath of ignorance and irrationality and what's worse is that regardless of what happens, nothing is going to change.

If the Tea Party candidates are elected, we will watch the spectacle of the System teaching them just what they don't know --a process I liken to housebreaking. They'll ride in on the wave of changing everything to suit them and find out just how little the system will let them.

If the Democrats win, it will be more years of Republicans fighting tooth and nail to prevent anything useful happening that will move us forward--not because it is always wrong but because it bears the label of Democrat.

If the Republicans win, they will promptly renege on every campaign promise made because the current system is so personally rewarding for them. They will simply get richer while the rest of their followers are caught up in spurious debates over immigration and healthcare reform, which they had proposed in the first place and then suddenly said were socialism. I guess it's socialism when the Democrats propose the same thing.

I suppose we get what we deserve--but the scary part for me is how we are manipulated through our own vanity. That and the populist, alarmist media who pander to the most vociferous among us. There is lunacy in the air. It is palapable and I despair that rational debate will return in my lifetime.