Welcome to your Low-Priced Political Commentary Store. Today is a special day we Americans celebrate every two years, an Election day. What makes it special is that it’s a day when the very wise parade through the very same rooms as the incredibly stupid and inept, to choose who will run their lives and pocketbooks for another two years. About the only other places outside Houses Of The Polling that these people co-mingle is courthouses and Wal-Mart.

The outcome of the elections will not be decided by the very wise, as they are few in number. The outcome will be decided by the great majority, those with the herd instinct, the incredibly stupid and inept, the cows and sheep.

The election of Republican George Bush as President and a majority of Republicans to both the House and Senate is clear proof of this. Our government functions poorly when one party is dominant. Now watch and see the proof once again as both the House and Senate are dominated by the Democrats and our government functions poorly. No doubt a Democrat president will be elected two years from now and things will really get messy. The only chance we have of preventing four more years of disaster would be if the House or Senate swung back to the Republicans.

This is as far as I get into the politics and politicians of my country. These people all seem to be much better at infighting, partisanship, backstabbing, lying, generally immoral behavior and anything except doing right by the American people, than the average American is. I wonder constantly at how we continue to survive as a nation with such miserable, self-serving trolls at the helm.

Exactly because of this, I quit voting years ago. The last president I voted for, as being a choice of poisons, was Nixon, and look what happened.

It used to be that the Democrats spent us into the poorhouse and created more bureaucracy and the Republicans would then bail us out of that mess. Now look back at the Clinton presidency where the bureaucracy was diminished and we had a huge budget surplus and a decreasing national debt and compare it to the Bush presidency where we have a new and vast set of bureaucracies and an unimaginable budget deficit and an unpayable national debt.

Why is this, and do you really think putting the Democrats back in charge would be an improvement? First, because Clinton was balanced against a Republican-dominated House. He didn’t have Bush’s carte blanche total control. And second, if the Democrats have total control, do you really think they won’t do what Bush and Party did?

The lesson to be learned here is that politicians will act out the traditional roles of their party only when the parties are balanced against each other. When one party has all the power, they will take it and run with it and start changing America from a democracy to a dictatorship.

Wise people know this but the herd never seems to get it.

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