Can You Give Me One Good Reason To Turn On The TV?

Well the folks in Iowa will finally be able to watch TV without being deluged by political attack ads. As for the rest of the country, yours is coming. It's not the final rest though. After all, this was just the warm up for the general election. Just one of many preliminary events. Then of course, there's the next campaign after 2012. Do you know anybody who wouldn't happily trade this current atmosphere of bitter rivalry for almost anything offered? It's not that politicians have become despicable liars and dispensers of untruths so much as that politicians no longer have a clue what's important to the health, safety and welfare of all people. They only know that it's going to take a sharp tongue and a fat bank account to keep getting elected and reelected. Now I assure you that your favorite elected official is interested in the desires of people other than himself. There's no question about it. He is adamant about seeing to it that his wealthy benefactors receive all the necessary opportunities they need to continue to support his cause. That includes invitations to his fundraisers as well as special tax incentives and sweetheart contracts that will allow them to raise a little fund for themselves as well. There's nothing new about this way of doing business. It's been going on since the dawn of time. It even has an old and venerable name attached to it. Corruption. Now corruption is not a bad thing when it's between friends. I mean, if you want to give your friend a helping hand in finding a job or feeding his family, that's a form of corruption that's widely practiced and socially acceptable, even lauded. But when it's handled in a way that perpetuates underhanded and unfair business practices and harms society, then it's called "politics as usual". The problem is that politics as usual, is usually the problem with politics. And there's always, 24/7, a TV talking head ready to talk about it, incessantly.