Saturday, July 2, 2016

Left, Right and Center: Here's "Why the Anger?"

With Trump, Sanders, and now BRexit, political-types, left, right, and center in America and elsewhere keep asking, "Where is all this anger coming from?" Are you serious? How dense are you people? Here are a few possible reasons in bullet form to make it easy for politicians to follow:

  • Passing laws but exempting themselves
  • Not enforcing laws they do pass
  • Constantly making excuses for their failures
  • Blaming others for their failures
  • Calling groups of fellow citizens enemies
  • Passing laws that large majorities of the public oppose
  • Holding hearings but never holding anyone accountable
  • Giving politicians a pass on criminal activity that would land ordinary citizens behind bars
  • Spending the country into oblivion - $19T in debt
  • Decrying greed and income inequality while becoming multi-millionaires in public service
  • Showing complete distain for ordinary citizens
  • Ignoring rampant waste, fraud, and abuse and then telling taxpayers they aren't paying enough
  • Constantly blaming your own country for all the world's ills
  • Focusing on trivial matters at the expense of serious issues
  • Lying
  • Parsing everything you say in lawyer speak so you can weasel out of things
  • Not keeping your promises
  • Disrespecting our history, culture and traditions
  • Giving foreigners rights of citizens while denying actual citizens their rights
  • Acting like an Ivy League law degree makes you an expert in everything from astrophysics to neurosurgery
  • Rejecting hundreds and even thousands of years of collective experience, wisdom and common sense in favor of newfangled ideas with no evidence of merit
  • Ceding our national sovereignty to unelected bodies like the UN, EU, and the World Court 
In short, the People want you to leave them the hell alone!
Readers feel free to comment if I missed any of our grievances in the above bullets.

1 comment:

  1. I agree Ken. Very concise. I can't agree with you more!

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