Political Rhetoric

Political Rhetoric should be such that it does not persuade fools to vote.

Politics isn't for everyone. It has become glaringly obvious. Politicians shouldn't be allowed to "not tell the truth" as means of obtaining votes. People who are easily persuaded by disinformation, misinformation and lies dominated the polls during the 2016 general election. The result was an attempt to destroy democracy on January 6, 2021.

The plot was an abject failure because it didn't include any presence of intellect. Now the participants are being arrested and jailed by the dozen's per week as they are found and the planners are making plea deals with prosecutors against their dear leader, Donald J. Trump, and getting probation.

This didn't start in 2016. It started March 19, 1979 with the creation of C-SPAN. Up to that point, politics was in the shadows of post-secondary academia. Once the cable television subscribing public got a look at how their representatives performed in the House and Senate, some people thought "Hey! I can do that!" Ever since, people with a facile understanding of governance are running for political office.

Now the media has turned politics into a discordant circus and the dedicated, intelligent, service oriented people are being pushed out of public service by self-serving, narcissistic megalomaniacs and the cultish fools who kowtow to their every whim. America was the proverbial frog in the pot of slowly boiling water over a period of nearly 40 years.

Then among a myriad of mistakes, gaffes and other foolishness, Roe v Wade was overturned. Suddenly democracy is worthy of attention by people who previously didn't have time to think about it. Democracy still stands on a precipice with a conservative leaning Supreme Court where democracy can still die in a breath. What happens during the 2024 general election will make or break the United States of America.

Hang on, folks.