A work in progress

To: Candidates for elected office

Hello,

We were wondering if you could answer some questions for us. We are tired of these human bodies filling sharp suits. The candidate travels around to various voting districts telling the numbers (lets face it, you do not really care about names and faces) everything they want to hear. Lower taxes? You got it! Help the middle class with real jobs? You got it! Health care reform? Piece of cake! Save the environment? Already on it! Crackdown on corporate abuse? Ahead of you! Little Johnny wants a traffic light at the busy intersection he crosses to go to school? God damnit! Little Johnny needs to be safe!

This exchange gets everyone in attendance juiced. Then, you travel around to several more districts. Make more promises. Then more. And more. And more. And, you get the picture. Then the smear campaign on Empty Suit Candidate B begins. Most of the Sheeple believe it because of your strong credentials, good looks, and likable personality. Empty Suit Candidate B responds with is own rebuttal commercials for Empty Suit Candidate A (you). This goes on for several months. The media talks about how dirty the campaign is getting. Both of you deny this, however. You have some small town hall type meetings. Laughs are had. Scripts are followed. Pictures with babies are above the fold. Now special interest mailings, commercials, robocalls, and door knockers flood the previous campaign that was  of the people. These specially interested groups are seeking favorable legislation, tax cuts, and appearances at their events from you. A good portion of them have some of your friends working in fairly powerful positions. What a coincidence.
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We are all adults here so stop acting like fucking children. Watching most elected officials perform the business of, don't laugh, the people is like watching two factions of young boys in a sandbox argue about who is in possession of the superior play dump truck. Yes, riveting and beneficial for all. You get elected. You get acclimated. That is if you have not already been the for thirty years because term limits are a terrible idea. Why would we want diverse elected officials who bring new ideas and new enthusiasm to office when we can have all these elite white guys peddling to whatever group is going to contribute the most paper to your [re]election campaign?

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We are no better off today than we were 20, 30, 40 years ago. Sure, ideas have altered slightly and the U.S. has meddled in more worldly business and accumulated much for debt for the grandkids of our grandkids to pay off all in the name of peace and patriotism, but lets not talk about that. The poor are even more poor. The rich are even more rich. The middle class is almost non existent. And we have picked up another category of people to be suckered, the working poor. When is the political rhetoric going to stop and when is the visionary leadership going to begin eliminating the classification of 'poor'?

We realize in order for there to be a population perceived as successful (read: in possession of truckloads of money) there must be a population that is unsuccessful (read: not qualified to drive that truckload of money). But, yes, let us pretend for a minute we actually care. Give us one good god damn reason why any child in this country should go hungry? Should be homeless? Should be uneducated? Should be straight out of the womb destined for failure because the unapologetic government they happen to be beholden to does not give a shit about them. It is going to take a change of culture and you must lead the way.

Signed,

The Sheeple