Aren't you tired of this?

   So I'm looking at some of my friends' updates on Facebook, and inevitably there's some about how Obama's old best friend from third grade think's he's a crappy president because he wasn't good at kickball and he still isn't. Then there's someone linking to an article about how Romney likes cheeseburgers, and how that makes him the best candidate for president since George Washington, because 'ol George loved a good burger. Then you read the comments of either article, and someone in there calls the author of the article a sexist, neoclassic cubist moron, or a red-winged blackbird thermo-nucleotidist weakling, because they don't understand anything at all, and they're only out for the good of the League of Democratic Nucleotide Hamsters, so their agenda can't be trusted. Even people who would normally be nice (or at least civil) to each other, seem to get into arguments about important issues like whether Obama dyes his hair, or whether Mitt's name was changed after he accepted an advertising payoff from Wilson sporting goods.

  Inevitably, my musings, moved by these important discussions of meaningful issues, turn to one simple thought. What is WRONG with all these people?! Are they nuts?! Do these hate-spouting, mud-slinging, verbally obfuscating discussions have ANYTHING at all to do with making actual improvements in our society? And for those who believe they do, come over here and take this frying pan, and hit yourself on the head with it repeatedly. I promise, it's for the good of the country. It will create jobs, cause babies to wave tiny American flags, and make people stop cutting you off on the freeway. I promise! What do you mean, it won't work? Of course it will! I promised you, didn't I? That's really all you need to hear, right?

   What would happen if the rank & file citizens of our country stood up and said--"Hey you, politicians! I'm tired of paying you a six-figure income while myself and 1/3 of everyone I know have been out of work for over a year! I don't CARE about the time when you were eight years old and thought girls were icky! I don't want to watch you argue with each other on TV and pretend like I understand all the fancy, meaningless vocabulary, or that I believe all the made-up garbage you're promising to do once you get into office! I'm done!"

What if nobody showed up at the polls? What if Americans were so disgusted with all the lying, cheating, payoffs, and such that they said "To heck with you!" What if everyone in the country decided they would only pay taxes on MERIT? You don't do the job (in other words, you don't accomplish anything truly meaningful in office), you DON'T GET PAID. Honestly, why are we spending OUR money to support knuckle-headed morons who can't seem to accomplish anything but spending billions and securing a wealthy pension?

I'm not talking about a boycott, or a rally, or anything like that. Let's just stop paying them, go on about our business, and let them argue themselves to death up on that silly hill. Heck, some of them may even decide to change their ways and become productive members of society--if they can find a job, of course. And maybe some people who actually want to do the job (rather than just being in it for the power, money, or fame) will eventually show up to claim these vacant positions.

Now let me be clear--I'm not a tea-party-er, or a left-wing, right-wing, up-wing, down-wing or swept wing person. I'm conservative in my views, but I don't side with any political party. I have one overriding view about politics. They SUCK. Politicians are a pack of liars and thieves, more interesting in defaming each other and getting money than they ever will be in making real changes to benefit our society. Until we have people in government who can't vote for raises for themselves, or accept payoffs from big corporations, or do whatever they want once in office with no way for the people to stop them, we will never have a government worth supporting.

I'm so very tired of hearing why this politician or that politician should be in office or shouldn't. Over and over again, politicians of our day and age have shown one common ability--the ability to accomplish nothing of value while spending horrendous amounts of money. Or in other words, the ability to get a job and not do it, be paid way more than they could possibly deserve, and get an overlarge pension paid to them for the rest of their lives for the work they didn't do.

Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." So why do we keep thinking voting for a different idiot to sit on the throne is somehow going to make all the idiocy stop?