Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Pandering Pillagers.

We have a few inauthentic, out of touch candidates pandering to "the people" on issues they have little to no experience in, or very little concern about. Generally a candidates for office is drawn from a socially and economically elite who presently have no real life experience with the typical struggles of the people they seek to represent, and often seldomly have. But today we have an entire new crop of undeserving, inept, disengenuous candidates coming after your vote. It is not unusual for the candidates to do or say something to show just how out of touch they really are. They have a lot of flowery rhetoric intended to seduce you into supporting their extravagant promises, and outrageous falsehoods. We even have superfial candidates that encourage your imaginations to run wild with their unmet exspectations. So when they fail to meet their unmet exspectations, all you got is yourself to blame. We do not currently have a showing of couragious candidates, boldly challenging their opponents to a duel of wit. Rather we have a bunch of ridged, bitter, cynical, naive, foolish, arrogant, or just straight up ignorant folks trying to represent us. But I feel particularly uncomfortable about the conservative minded candidates we have vailed in the mist of tribal politics, trying to push forth their small minded, self serving agendas. These inconsiderate candidates are only trying to test the waters with their little selfish, political experiment. These inexperienced, would be politicians try to throw the public off their conservative scent by proclaiming their distaste for status quo jobbery(kind of like the tea party). Yet their blatant hypocrisy and their inability to see past their inherent, self centered ideaology speaks for itself. These people don't think tribal, yet they want to cast the burden of decision making upon the misinformed masses so its prevents them from holding the blame entirely. They want to promote the privatization of services and businesses against the collective effort of a struggling tribe. Even in times of uncertainty, when the tribe should be pulling together to prevent economic calamity. Yes, we all want to see successful Leech Lakers out in the world. But first we must build a means to encourage more of these stories of success. Now is not the time to be promoting entrepreneurship, and personal success. The success of our leaders should belong to their people. We are a tribe, it's about time we start acting as one and reject these ideas of personal accomplishment that contributes to many of our people falling out of touch, and becoming insensitive, apathetic towards their fellow countrymens needs. If there was ever a need to call for disenrollment of ones tribal status, it should be when that word "tribe" loses all meaning, or there is no personal desire to become familar with that word. When they take advantage of their tribal status, or help themselves to the vulnerabilities of their fellow countrymen. When they start promoting themselves above the efforts of our people trying to pull together. We see that a lot. People preverting, misconstruing, and diluting it's meaning. That is not only a disservice to those that share tribal affiliation with these inconsiderate indiviuals, but to themselves most of all. They rob themselves of a genuine relationship with their people, of a greater understanding of the problems we face together. It will take years for some of these individuals to come to terms with their flawed ideals. Mostly because their pretentious, or too stubborn, and stuck in their ways. These people will not lead us out of these times of hardship and uncertainty. They will selfishly drag us all down the wrong treacherious road they are unable to navigate. In four years we will be worse off then we currently find ourselves if we do not come together and make the right decisions for us all, and most importantly, our children.