Political Ping Pong

 As much as I gripe about Trump and his merry gang of morons, you must understand that I will likely feel the same way with any administration anymore.

Face it: the Democrats who come in (IF they come in), will likely be all about impeaching and keeping Trump at bay. And in 2028, if they get someone into the White House, there will be a huge amount of grief that will have people begging for Republicans again.

I've been feeling this distaste for some time, probably since 2001, even before 9/11 happened. W was a royal clown and everyone knew it, and somehow we were stuck with him for 8 years of a go nowhere war that yielded nothing but an economic and housing collapse.

Obama was a surprise to me, but given the economy of 2008, I knew why he won. The nation wanted a change. And we got one.It was also a time of left-leaning policies coming to life as well as ACA, I was not fond of many of those policies, but what's a new dad to do?

Then came Trump 1.0. Having been familiar with him in the world since around 1984, I knew we were going to be in for a ride. His restructring of taxes put an end to our summer vacation getaways since the large refunds (from higher taxes) that funded flights and rental cars disappeared. And really, if it had not been for COVID, I think his second term was a practical shoo-in.

For the record, I agree with all of the investigations and Supreme Court rulings: he lost, and the Congressional turnover of 2018 foreshadowed his 2020 loss in some way.

Then came Biden. I did not vote for him, I thought he was too damn old to be handed the job with the COVID mess not yet cleaned up. His term was actually part of a low time for me in terms of mental health.

And here we are in Trump 2.0 and after the first year of it, we are in high price hell. No matter who wins these midterms (they are as unpleasant as the school tests), we as the people will lose.

And why do we lose? We as a society are complacent. We are convinced that politically there are good guys and bad guys.

They are all bad guys. They all have an agenda. And that agenda is money and power no matter who the party is.

And it has been that way since we overthrew the British 245 years ago.

Oh don't get me wrong, there were political heroes in history, but much of their heroism came before they entered the political arena.

I still admire Lincoln. I admire Teddy Roosevelt. I admire Thomas Jefferson. I admire JFK.

But they had their faults, they were human. Yet they were put on pedestals as symbols of greatness.

And between those people came some nincompoops. Tyler...Fillmore...Pierce...2 Johnsons...Arthur...Harding...Hoover. Rise and fall, fall and rise.

Sometimes it is not so much the Presidents but the people who are around them who make them look bad, hirees with their own agendas who use their employment as business oppurtunity as well as a legal shield.

Coming back to the present, I think Trump has those kinds of people because they know he adores flattery and mistakes it for loyalty. Same for Biden, same for Obama, same for W....hell, same for Clinton and Bush Sr and Reagan and Carter and Ford and Nixon and LBJ and probably further back than that.

It's all the same as far as I'm concerned. I grew up with those clowns in power and I will die with other clowns in power.

There is no real Republican or Democrat anymore. Those are just names representing a past more gentle rivalry. Now it is a volley for control.

Control of us. What we say, what we do. And some of those politicos are themselves controlled by industry. Inustry that wants to control what we eat and drink and take as medicine to make us think we are being cured.

And like I said earlier, it has been going on for over 2 centuries.