Today’s Rant is going to be
short and to the point.
I do not like politics, and I do not like politics that are damaging this country right now.
I do not like the divisiveness that it has produced, nor the lies that we have been fed, nor the people profiting from these lies—
And that has to do with those from both major parties, Republican and Democrat.
I don’t like that everything involved in human life has become political, and I don’t and won’t buy into the nonsense that is being foisted onto us about us not being in a recession, that everything is fine even though inflation is the worst it has been in at least 40 years, and that we are coming around, as employment figures are the best they have been in decades.
I don’t buy into the latest nonsense on the coronavirus, monkeypox, and how certain groups have to be coddled so as not to offend them.
This is all political doggerel—a comic verse composed in irregular rhythm—but the problem is that it is not funny, not funny in the least.
So for what it is worth, late yesterday afternoon, I put this message up on Facebook, and all that I ask is for you is to read it, try to absorb it, read it again if you have to, but think about your own situation and how it relates to what I said.
Here it is:
“I do not belong to a political party, never have, never will.
Through most of my voting life, I would simply vote for who I believed the best candidate was regardless of party, which is the real way to cast your ballot to begin with; the dumbest thing you can do is to vote for one party, and not for what the candidate stands for.
But now, I believe I have reached the point that I am forced to cross off both the Democrats and Republicans for being the self-serving money grabbers that have absolutely no regard for their constituents.
As an independent voter, each party desperately needs me to feather their beds, but they won't be getting me.
They have completely lost me, with their constant barrage of double talk and lies.
And I am going to tell you now ... I WILL NOT CAST A VOTE FOR BIDEN OR TRUMP OR WHOEVER RUNS FOR THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES DURING THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, because one choice is more horrid than the other.
As for the coming election this November, I have never missed an election in 47 years, and I won't miss the one this year, but I am done with these two highly incompetent parties.
Anyone feel the same way that I do?”
I did get some positive approvals to my post, and that does mean at least some people are actually using their brains in what I call “The Automaton Age,” where our thinking and reasoning is done by other people.
I know we are in the abyss when I actually had a discussion yesterday with someone who was trying to prove their political point using Alex Jones as a reference point, almost in a joking way.
This was the guy who claimed that Sandy Hook never happened, the people posing as parents who lost their children to this senseless imbecility were actors and that these kids aren’t dead, with the episode being created to force the gun lobby into submission.
Jones now has to pay $50 million or so for his lies, and whatever the person I mentioned was trying to prove, perhaps you should pick someone else to bolster what you are trying to say than this wimp, who is the darling of the very far right but has as much substance as your toilet bowl does after you take your daily constitutional.
Anyway, as this once great country goes down the toilet, drowning in woke thinking and turning the definitions of long-standing words around to fit this thinking—“vaccine,” “progressive,” “inclusion,” just to name a few—maybe it is time to look back at a rather innocuous song that kind of says it all in its own way.
Herman’s Hermits “Listen People,” written by Graham Gouldman, was a huge hit back in 1965, sort of a paean to love lost.
But the words are effective if used to reflect what I have to say, and I think they need to be read and their meaning be taken into account as I end today’s Rant.
“Listen people to what I say
I say everybody's got to have their day
And don't you know that
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
Everybody's got to win a heart
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
When you do, I hope you never part
I once found love, found love just like you
But then he came, he might come to you
And don't you know that
Everybody's got to lose somebody sometime
But everybody can part
Everybody's got to lose somebody sometime
So take care that you don't lose your heart
Take my advice and you'll always find
You'll be happy all of the time
Take my advice and you will see
You'll be happy as you can be
Listen people to what I say
I say everybody's got to have their day
And don't you know that
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
Everybody's got to win a heart
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
When you do, I hope you never part
You never part.”
I do not like politics, and I do not like politics that are damaging this country right now.
I do not like the divisiveness that it has produced, nor the lies that we have been fed, nor the people profiting from these lies—
And that has to do with those from both major parties, Republican and Democrat.
I don’t like that everything involved in human life has become political, and I don’t and won’t buy into the nonsense that is being foisted onto us about us not being in a recession, that everything is fine even though inflation is the worst it has been in at least 40 years, and that we are coming around, as employment figures are the best they have been in decades.
I don’t buy into the latest nonsense on the coronavirus, monkeypox, and how certain groups have to be coddled so as not to offend them.
This is all political doggerel—a comic verse composed in irregular rhythm—but the problem is that it is not funny, not funny in the least.
So for what it is worth, late yesterday afternoon, I put this message up on Facebook, and all that I ask is for you is to read it, try to absorb it, read it again if you have to, but think about your own situation and how it relates to what I said.
Here it is:
“I do not belong to a political party, never have, never will.
Through most of my voting life, I would simply vote for who I believed the best candidate was regardless of party, which is the real way to cast your ballot to begin with; the dumbest thing you can do is to vote for one party, and not for what the candidate stands for.
But now, I believe I have reached the point that I am forced to cross off both the Democrats and Republicans for being the self-serving money grabbers that have absolutely no regard for their constituents.
As an independent voter, each party desperately needs me to feather their beds, but they won't be getting me.
They have completely lost me, with their constant barrage of double talk and lies.
And I am going to tell you now ... I WILL NOT CAST A VOTE FOR BIDEN OR TRUMP OR WHOEVER RUNS FOR THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES DURING THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, because one choice is more horrid than the other.
As for the coming election this November, I have never missed an election in 47 years, and I won't miss the one this year, but I am done with these two highly incompetent parties.
Anyone feel the same way that I do?”
I did get some positive approvals to my post, and that does mean at least some people are actually using their brains in what I call “The Automaton Age,” where our thinking and reasoning is done by other people.
I know we are in the abyss when I actually had a discussion yesterday with someone who was trying to prove their political point using Alex Jones as a reference point, almost in a joking way.
This was the guy who claimed that Sandy Hook never happened, the people posing as parents who lost their children to this senseless imbecility were actors and that these kids aren’t dead, with the episode being created to force the gun lobby into submission.
Jones now has to pay $50 million or so for his lies, and whatever the person I mentioned was trying to prove, perhaps you should pick someone else to bolster what you are trying to say than this wimp, who is the darling of the very far right but has as much substance as your toilet bowl does after you take your daily constitutional.
Anyway, as this once great country goes down the toilet, drowning in woke thinking and turning the definitions of long-standing words around to fit this thinking—“vaccine,” “progressive,” “inclusion,” just to name a few—maybe it is time to look back at a rather innocuous song that kind of says it all in its own way.
Herman’s Hermits “Listen People,” written by Graham Gouldman, was a huge hit back in 1965, sort of a paean to love lost.
But the words are effective if used to reflect what I have to say, and I think they need to be read and their meaning be taken into account as I end today’s Rant.
“Listen people to what I say
I say everybody's got to have their day
And don't you know that
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
Everybody's got to win a heart
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
When you do, I hope you never part
I once found love, found love just like you
But then he came, he might come to you
And don't you know that
Everybody's got to lose somebody sometime
But everybody can part
Everybody's got to lose somebody sometime
So take care that you don't lose your heart
Take my advice and you'll always find
You'll be happy all of the time
Take my advice and you will see
You'll be happy as you can be
Listen people to what I say
I say everybody's got to have their day
And don't you know that
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
Everybody's got to win a heart
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
When you do, I hope you never part
You never part.”
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