Worn Out Politicians

The Villager likens politics and politicians to household laundry. The apparel we wear and the household linens in use are washed sometimes daily because of the accumulation of soil, spills, contact with mold, spores, whatever wants to hang on. The laundry is hung out in the sunshine and aired and returns smelling fresh and cleaned. Eventually from this constant cleansing, there is a wearout, and things have to be replaced. The same way with politicians. During lengthy use, they need to be washed regularly of contacts, hung out in the sunshine, then tossed in the ragbag if they have worn out or sodden beyond cleansing. This "in the sunshine" airing can take the form of frequent, open unrehearsed press conferences, visiting the cities and workplaces all across the country, shaking hands again with the folks, and listening in person to the real home town talk.

What ordinary citizen across this land gets to shake the hand of a sitting president, perhaps voice his concerns, unless he can contribute $2,000 at a dinner towards the next campaign? The Villager would contribute a dollar bill to a national "Meet the President" lottery for a chance to win a day in the White House, sitting in the Oval Office beside the Chief Executive, and observing him at work, and having his ear. It is a rare politician today who submits to any commonality cleansing during his elected tenure but instead insulates himself with layer upon layer of parasitic sycophants hiding and consolidating, who grow, feed and are sheltered by the host, contributing cash while sucking out substances. When the given term of use runs out and the pol is held up to the light for scrutiny as to further fitness, he comes apart, threadbare, and it is time to replace. Out of the subsequent churnings of rhetoric, accusations, debris from the washings, strains the voice of the people, long ignored, now able to be heard and thus to decide.

Thus bursts forth a national election, and only thus is a single vote worth more than $1.00, or a $2,000 dinner plate as democracy revives, comes alive, with the purchase of a new garment called Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all. The "for all" is all of us, 650 million Americans who can exercise their inaliable right to life (health care), liberty (freedom of expression, vocal, written and in demonstrations) and the pursuit of happiness (a job, an education). These words never lose their glory or their power, unless the populace fails to understand the message of their chosen leader and vote for HIM and his agenda rather than for theirselves and their interests.