A highschool buddy sent me the following link with his hearty comment: AMEN!!!!!!!

(from the Charlie Reese article) They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

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Absolutely right! Yeah, good idea ... let's throw the bums out. If we're the boss, we'd better start acting like the boss....

According to Wikipedia, "[i]n the 2000 Congressional Election, out of the 435 Congressional districts in which there were election, 359 were listed as "safe" by Congressional Quarterly. [4] In all of these 359 there was no uncertainty as to who would win. The results a week later confirmed that very few House races were competitive. The 2000 House election resulted in a net change of only four seats (+1 for the Democrats, -2 for the Republicans, and the electing of an additional independent). In total 98% of all incumbents were reelected, and this was not unusual." (my emphasis)

Sadly, typical. I sometimes have a hard time understanding that voters generally don't lay the blame for bad government at the feet of government ... until I reflect that I was processed through the same Public Fool System -- often by teachers who themselves were similarly processed a generation earlier.

The Public Fool System works far too well. We who are thereby sheepified, "graduate" unable to perceive how little we really understand the actual workings of the political/economic world, unable to recognize when our kids are being indoctrinated, mentally disarmed, and taught to despise learning in general, so that the conditioning is cumulative, becoming almost impossible to overcome. We intellectually blind often do not even suspect how much we cannot see. (Your mileage may vary.)

Since (partially) awakening, I have tried (to almost no avail) to interest my fellow sheepizens to take thoughtful political action (e.g., voting for "unpopular" -- but honest [non-socialist] -- candidates, for or against various ballot measures.) My effort is inevitably outweighed by the Inertia Twins, Apathy and Ignorance. Sheeple vote for names they recognize -- even when the only reason they recognize those names is: that's who shafted them last time around!

Either they're ashamed to admit their mistake, or it's analogous to Aesop's fable about how the mice voted to tie a bell around the cat's neck, so he couldn't sneak up on them. Problem was, they never found a hero-mouse brave enough to volunteer, and they wouldn't team up to do it -- too risky! Oh well! ....

George W. Sockpuppet ("The Decider") is a fitting prez for such a nation. Sadly, his successor will be likewise.