Politicians, particularly those who currently hold office, as far as I was concerned, were conniving individuals who would do nothing more than that which is of benefit to them and particular groups. They were pimps who prostituted thoughts to the moral, cultured, and civilized.
Then I ran an old friend – now a drunk and classic example of a delinquent who failed to reform – who said, “Most people are other people; therefore, I am one of you.” I have thought about what he said. You and I are most of the other people; it is just that we have decided – politically – to be, I suppose, better off without them. But then again, we are not.
We are politicians.
I figure we are no different than those of us who decided to run for office and received most support from most of us and were seated. No one belonged to the “others” as we went out to vote for the few of us who had the courage to stand up and say “We, the people. . .” –which constituted all of us, including my old friend.
Each and everyone of us has the power to make the ills of society go away. We do not need legislation to feed those of us who are hungry nor do we need a directive or an executive order to help someone in need. We are moral, cultured, and civilized.
I am almost certain that all of us know of the “right thing to do.” However, there are some of us who have simply elected not “to do the right thing” – apparently, some elected officials are supposedly responsible for making such decisions for them. I was in the vote.
I have heard a lot of this and that from so and so about the people who are currently in office. Interestingly enough, those in office have been referred to as them, the higher ups, and at one point, unscrupulous characters. All of these descriptions fit just about any of
us – except the elected officials do get paid for their research, studies, debates, and get to go on TV and radio talk shows once in a while; and most of what they do when they work goes on permanent record. I can guarantee you that when the elected officials clock out at the end of each workday, they do as we do – think about the ills of society and pray that whatever they had done during the work day would take a nip out of the ills of the society, hence making the next day a better day.
I do know if the elected officials sleep any better than most of us. Elected officials have
taken most of the blame – I wonder how they sleep. As for you and I, we should get going.
We have had far too much rest. Let us do something good for most of us. If nothing, sleep.
