Maybe I'm missing something here, regarding the upcoming mid-term elections. But I saw this headline this morning "Democrats Bring Out the Big Guns, Hope to Defy Odds in Midterm Elections," and I don't understand it.
It sees to me, as I've been blogging the past few days, that Dem candidates are rebelling all over the country and using last ditch appeals to their constituents by separating themselves from the leaders who are taking their party (and the country) down the chute.
However, the leaders seem to be too dumb, arrogant, misguided, deaf, blind, or otherwise unable to get the message that nobody wants them around, because they're political pariahs. Yet, they keep showing up to attend rallies and blow out blimp-loads of worthless hot air.
And, as for myself, I still think that just about anyone who has an iota of intelligence has to sit back and either take offense or be shocked that folks who claim to be "leaders" don't have a clue as to what their constituents need or want. Apparently all these politico's think or believe that their jobs are all about words, not actions, and by simply changing their rhetoric they'll recapture votes.
Well, evidence seems to be pointing in another direction today, indicating that the public expects more from their elected officials than talk, and the days of hype, smoke, and fluff are over. So that while the poltico's are using tactics that have worked since the inception of campaigning, the real world has evolved into something else.
Today, just about every voter has access to immediate information twenty-four, seven, three sixty five. That means the days of perpetual political smoke and mirrors are over, because it's not so easy for incumbents to hide while in office when they're ideas and philosophies don't work.
So, since elected officials can no longer easily duck their failures, use speeches to cover their tracks or otherwise evade the public's wrath for ineptitude, I guess we should all expect less "political" and more productive type folks elected to office. And, in the long run I think the odds are that that will happen.
However, while today's technology and equipment now allows immediate dissemination of information that keeps the voting public informed instantaneously, politicians haven't yet really realized how the game has changed. Thus, although it's likely that there'll be a significant turnover in leadership in Novemeber, the folks coming in will simply be the same old politicos of a different stripe.
But, the handwriting on the walls predicts that very soon -since the public's now plugged in full time- if folks expect to stay in office in the future, they're actually going to have to produce instead of simply being worthless bags of hot air.
That's it for today folks.
Adios.
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