Politics suck

Politics is exhausting.  Like sexuality, I don’t believe that everyone is purely left or purely right.  You may be a die-hard environmentalist, but very pro-2^nd amendment.  There are plenty of people out there who are pro-choice, but would never consider terminating their own pregnancy for any reason.  You may be a stalwart Fox News watcher Dead Head.  This shit happens.

But, there’s one thing to keep in mind during this election season: none of the candidates have all of the answers.  None.  There may be one you like more because they seem to stand for what you care about most.  Remember, however, that they’re just politicians (except that nut-job Doctor who doesn’t fully understand women’s physiology, but that’s another story for another day), and not experts on, well, maybe anything, other than being a politician.

For example, and please understand that these are all hypotheticals, Trump may be an expert on, um, building shit with his name on it.  Fine.  Typically, his shit houses people, from apartment buildings in NYC to Casinos in Atlantic City, to golf-courses in Bedminster, NJ.  These are some of the most successful projects ever undertaken by a builder/developer on the East Coast, he would say.  The best! However, when his mouth diarrhea spews words about building inhospitable walls on the U.S. border with Mexico, you can bet that he isn’t spending his own hard-earned cash on a team of architects who are preparing draft plans for 1,989 miles of immigrant-stopping wall.  It’s just lip. 

OK, you say, you get that, but the same thing goes for the other side.  Social equality is far easier said than accomplished.  The thoughts of the far left are super-appealing to those of us in the Upper-Middle Class and below…mostly because it highlights things we work hard for like affordable education, medical benefits and ensuring that a living wage is mandatory.  However, we don’t live in a kingdom where the dude on top decides the laws.  Changing our tax-structure and standards of living across this country takes time and cooperation…longer than 8 years in office, and only with legislators who agree and can get it accomplished with an actual vote.  It’s too big a ship to steer by oneself, and if someone on the far left gets elected, none of those extreme policies will get through Congress.  None. 

So, as you watch the debates, or hear about them on your social media feeds, take the results with a huge grain of salt.  It’s not that your vote/opinion doesn’t matter, but unless there’s a sea-change in opinion one way or another, the promises of the political candidates are worth about as much as the paper they’re printed on…which is to say, you can line the bottoms of your birdcages with it.