The Problem

As I see it, anyway
I have tried to outline in vaguely in this blog but we are a week away from the midterm elections and it's time to get to the point. You have to understand that there is nothing we can do now to change much of what is about to happen. My plan, idea will only work after next week and will be outlined in its entirety on the next post but today it is time to share the problem.
There is not one single problem with American politics today there are so many problems that I doubt I can list all of them...and THAT is the problem.
I'm in my late 50s and so much has changed in my lifetime with technology, the economy, what is or isn't socially acceptable to name a few. It is a different world and different country since the time I was born. Hopefully you, as the reader, can accept this truth. It will go a lot easier if you give me that one point.
One of the titles was Royal Flush and spoke of kingdoms, monarchies. Why this title? We are living in one. I know, constitutional republic, nope. Not now. Not today. Not when you give it a little thought. In a kingdom, there is a ruling class. A class that dictates law to the citizens with little concern for them because they view them as their subjects, their children. But are we little mindless kids that want mom and dad to make all the decisions for us without our consent? We do because they no longer represent us. It is all for their best interests. Their pocketbooks. But that doesn't make them a ruling class, you say. Look at who our parents are! A generation of Kennedys, the Bush family, the recent rise in the Slitherin House, the Clintons. All in my head!?! Do you realize that a few have been parenting(lording)over us for almost my entire lifetime? Andy, do your chores, help the family out and be a good boy. Ruling class. Parental oversight. Worse, we have allowed it for 2 generations that I know of.
I will never be a supreme court justice post only backs up this claim. Huh? I don't have the power and money to make any of my mistakes go away. Who would have ever thought that we would have 2 presidents openly admit to smoking pot? Not that I have an issue with pot but according to the law of the land its illegal. Yes, I did too when I was younger but i can't sweep it under the rug. It would come out and be used against me as would other aspects of my life. But when you are groomed for the "job" or like Martin Sheen's character in "the Dead Zone", bully, claw and even murder (if its necessary) your way into the Ministry of Magic then there is no touching you. Who is untouchable in our world today? Royalty. Diana is dead and even the Queen herself has been charged with guilt in the disappearance of children back in the 70s. Crickets. I did do research, so feel free to look up these things.
That's England!, you cry. Its here too. Juanita Broderick and Chappaquiddick come to mind quickly. I'm sure if we sat down At The Kitchen Table and talked, we would agree on many more examples that didn't just focus on the Blue Blood of one house. A constitutional republic is just a monarchy without a specific ruler, similar to Rome but without Caesars. But something happened on the way to the polling stations. We got complacent.
How did that happen? Life. We got too busy making a living a decided we didn't have time for life. You will argue that has always been the case and you would not necessarily be wrong. But things have changed over the last 50 years.
I am trying to get this all down on paper before or just after the elections and it is not my intention to write a complete book in a week, so the things I will skip are the failings of the education system both public and private, healthcare(no matter how huge a roll it has in the storyline), or our military presence around the world with over (Mark Salter from SaltyTalkRadio.com as my fact checker) 800 based worldwide for our Empire. I tried to add a few more to the no time to discuss list but sorry, it will get touched upon.
I have decided that the solution will have to wait a bit longer than the next blog because I see this will be 2 parts of i am still alive and/or able to post again. As a last will and testament, being of questionable mind for writing this and surviving the attempted homicide through misdiagnosis, I leave everything to my wife, Svetlana. Hopefully they won't bother her but Alex is next in line. The other 2 I won't mention there names but in the event of all of us ceasing to exist at the same time, my friends know who they are. Dramatic? Over the top? Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell.
More of the problem...
I heard it discussed recently that in my lifetime, the president was untouchable to the degree that as long as he didn't break the law, not the moral law, but the law of the land, that he should not be drug down. This was the 60s. And a different time. News was straight forward. A story was read with no opinion. Then came Watergate. Illegal activity. Pulitzer prizes, movie deals, wow! Cool stuff! How do I take down a president? By reporting. Not reading the news but going out and finding a story. It's that easy? Yes, son, it is. And the cool thing is, if the story ends up having no teeth, no bite to it we can do a few things to get more recognition anyway. How, dear mentor,  can we do that? Why it's simple! If you want to do a story on the unsafe design of a pickup truck and how it can explode on impact, to be sure it does, overfill the tank(start a small fire where no one can see it) and barrel a big vehicle into to it. We can call this news and our ratings will be high!
Even though it's only reporting AND it violates the code of reporting it's not news. Drama, yes. And this type of behavior lead to reality TV which didn't have anything to do with reality. What was my point? The seduction of the press for the sake of accolades but not for truth. They found that their hatred was an easy path down the dark side of the force. Seduced they were. Powerful it is. Lost they are.
Part 2 of "The Problem" will not take as long as the 7th installment for Star Wars.