Only In America.

       Have you ever stopped to think that children are punished for what politicians are rewarded for? Your mom told you not to say anything about someone if you can't say anything nice about them, but politicians tell their campaign staffs to spread mean and untrue rumors about their opponents.
       More money was spent on the last campaign per voter than in any previous campaign. And fewer people voted than any other campaign. Republicans won overwhelmingly in the last election in part because of such a low turnout. Their voters listened to the winning approach used by Republican politicians. Namely that jobs are more important than social issues. Democrats bet on social issues and got their clocks cleaned.
       But now, more Republican state legislatures are acting on more social issues than on jobs, while Democratic state legislatures are acting more on jobs than social issues. It would appear Republicans forgot what gave them the win, and Democrats still can't agree about who's on first.
       A U.S. Senator with two months experience on the job has talked 46 other Senators into throwing a monkey-wrench into negotiations for a peaceful solution to the Iran nuclear problem. The Republicans are being drawn further to the right while Democrats are being drawn further to the left and they seem to be leaving more and more room for a third, centrist, party not in existence at all.
       Meanwhile, the rest of the world is scratching their collective heads, wondering just what the devil America is doing. More and more states are against science, climate change and evolution than ever before. Education is being thrown out with the bathwater and our infrastructure is left to fend for itself. It's 2015 and America seems destined to enter the eighteenth century any day now.
       Our only hope for the future seems to lie in the arms of a handful of mega-rich individuals and corporations who's only interest seems to be their own personal and corporate interests. And why shouldn't it be so? After all, politicians all flock to them for approval. They write all the laws and then tell the legislators how to vote.