None of the Above!

Hollywood writers have gone on strike! Now some of our favorite television shows will be on hiatus. If this goes on too long, we’ll be forced to watch stale reruns endlessly. It’ll be like observing another Presidential election campaign.

We’re a full year away from the next election, and the gloves are off. Democrats are attacking the front runner, and so are the Republicans. Can there be any doubt that the recent hoopla over “the boys’” attack on Mrs. Clinton after the last Democratic debate is anything more than calculated political marketing by the Clinton machine?

For that matter suspicions abound regarding Bernard Kerik’s recent incitement on corruption charges. Is this the 1990’s again? It hints of the Clinton White House “Character Assassination by Association” routine. Mr. Kerik was hired by Rudy Giuliani; Mrs. Clinton’s likely rival in the general election. What better issues to use to try and wound Giuliani in the Republican primary. He’s the only one who has a shot at beating Mrs. Clinton. If they can get Giuliani out of the way now by denying him the Republican nomination, then it’s “First Gent Bill” in the Lincoln bedroom all over again.

It is not that Kerik may be guilty; it is the scent around the the indictment, and its timing. America spent eight years under the Clinton’s seeing their Nixonian method of operations. It is amazing that they are so like Nixon, and yet so revered in comparison by the political left. The country has become even more disenfranchised under the Bush administration. The folks outside of those corrupted by Washington’s lure of power, want some honesty.

Everything that is wrong in this country is brought to light in a Presidential election. The backstabbing, the conniving, the inability to live and let live with those of a different opinion are laid bare. Truthfully though, this country is better than that. It lives with fair morals outside of politics and the way media portrays it. In political and media circles, everyone is racist, sexist, homophobic, and greedy; especially if those messages enhance someone’s political chances of landing in a seat of power.

American’s love their system and culture. They feel ashamed however, to be associated with the way it is being used, and the people who are attracted to it. In the election process, what is being trampled under the bus is the populous. Regardless of which party lands in power, the citizens are the losers.

It is time for the population to inflict its will on the politicians. It is time to list the phrase “none of the above” on our voting ballots. When we elect “no one” to power, then those losers standing with their gaping mouths open will understand that even “no one” is a preferable choice to their tainted values. When “nobody” is better than "anybody", a real dialogue can begin between politicians and the population.

So the next year might be very interesting for politics watchers. For all of the hoopla though, the discourse will be as much of a waste as the hot air congress spews. The vast majority of the electorate won’t be paying attention, or really deciding who they will vote for the next eleven months. Until then, we are left to the spinners, media outlets with particular agendas, and the machine’s that some candidates bring to the table. Basically it is reruns of the last thirty years. We’ve seen this show, turn the channel and let’s see what else is on! We need a petition to get “none of the above” onto ballots in next year’s election.

Since Hollywood writers went on strike, I’m willing to donate my talent and take credit as a scab for that new literature to appear on ballots. Come to think about it, since Hollywood writers are not working, how much could it possibly cost to persuade political candidate writer’s to go on strike in sympathy? About a year’s walk-out is all we need. Without their pupopet masters, the candidates won’t have anything to say (not that they say much of use anyway). That sounds like a breath of fresh air coming from the political scene. Afterward, the population can do its own talking by voting for “none of the above.”