I don't care about politics at all. I don't vote (gasp!), I don't get into heated debates about candidates' personal lives or past scandals, and I can't stand "this message was approved by blah blah blah" campaign ads taking up my time. I watch people around me get consumed by politics. I've seen it literally tear families in half. Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative, Right-wing, Left-wing...what does it all even mean? The lines aren't even clear anymore. No one stays to one side or the other anyway. Can you honestly say you support every single item on the agenda of a candidate on either side of the fence? Probably not, because no candidate plays solely for either team. That's politics for ya! Funny how that cliche fits so nicely when you're actually talking about politics. When it's election time, it is so humorous to me to watch everyone scuttle around in secret talking about who they're going to vote for. They won't tell you, even if you pay them, who they circled on that ballot come November. Funny though, that about a year later, when whoever it is that was elected is screwing up, everyone is so open about who they voted for, because no one voted for "that guy". How did he get in office then? Hmmmm.
Speaking of everyone hating the guy that's in office, let's take a brief moment to talk about the big cheese who holds the main office. Mr. President himself. How come no one ever likes the president? We can look back on him years later and think, "yeah, that guy was alright", but while he's in office, he's a total dirtbag that we'd give anything to lynch if we could. What an angry, ungrateful mob of heathens we are. Let's roll back a few years to Mr. Clinton, for example. We wanted to impeach him so bad and kick his butt out of office for not understanding if he did or didn't have sex with his intern in the White House, or even at all for that matter, but he fooled us and got off on a technicality. How could this man run a country if he couldn't understand a simple question? Now, years later, we're ready to canonize the man as one of the greatest presidents since JFK; who also had a problem keeping it in his pants if you know what I mean. Fast forward to Mr. Bush or as he was more affectionately known: "Dubya". He was one of the most hated presidents of all time. Why? For everything from starting a war, to wanting to end a war, to the way he talked, walked, looked, dressed, supported our troops, didn't support our troops, created a hurricane of mass destruction that purposely killed the black people he hated and everything you can possibly think of in between. Ok, that's fine if you didn't like the guy, that's your prerogative. Now we have Mr. Obama, who everyone thought was going to be the next best thing to save the world since Superman himself, and now that he isn't, Mr. Bush suddenly isn't looking so bad is he? What the hell is wrong with us?!!! We're like a bunch of psycho women who purposely date scumbag guys and then when the relationship is over, we're like, "oh, he wasn't that bad" because the next guy we're with is worse, so of course the one before looks like a prince! We need counseling. Seriously.
Anyway, back on track...I hate watching the news. World or local, I despise them both equally. What a waste of time.
Local news makes me sad because it forces me to look my community in the eyes and face the evil that stares back at me. I'm fearful of the world I'm raising my children in, and I feel disheartened at the state of our city, since it seems there's nothing anyone can do to save us all from ourselves. But me watching in shock, horror, awe and disbelief isn't going to change these hateful people, is it? No. Am I going to call my neighbor up and say, "let's go gather up a search party and find that suspect and serve him some justice of our own"! No. Am I going to arm myself with my legally acquired, legally permitted weapon and run around in the night like some self-proclaimed vigilante neighborhood watchman? Hell no. So what is the point of me watching it and getting upset about it? There isn't one. I can't change it, and as much as we all secretly want to believe we are important and special, we're not. We can't just walk out our door and say "STOP" and expect all the crimes of the community to halt in their tracks. We can't even get anywhere by taking the drastic measures some think they should, by writing letters and calling the police every five minutes and storming the gates of the local mayor's office. It's clearly getting us nowhere because the crime will always outweigh the good. Doesn't it sound like I'm saying we should all just lay down and take it? Wow, I am such a sissy!! No, I'm just saying I'm sick of hearing everyone getting so up in arms about what they're gonna "do about it". Protect yourself, protect your family, and have some common sense, but other than that Mr. Joe Citizen, stop freaking out all over the place and just focus on your life before it passes you by. Your kids will thank me later.
World news is a whole different animal. People get really geared up about world news. This is where I just roll my eyes. As if you're really going to get on a plane and fly over to the middle east and start laying down the law. Get a life. I am sick to death of hearing, seeing and reading conversations about all of the major topics in today's world news, where people end the conversation with everything that should be done about it, like "they totally need to...because of...or else the world's gonna...". I understand you have your opinion, and that's fine, but I really don't need it crammed down my throat at every moment of every day in every conversation. Have you ever met that world news radical? You know, the one who is always up on the latest news stories you've never heard, and reads like different 12 newspapers, and watches CNN all day. The one who posts these news stories on Facebook every five minutes with their 14 page dissertation on "what they'd like to do about" such and such situation. Or the one that can't seem to talk about anything other than the news story they saw every time you try to have a conversation. Those people make me nuts! They make me nuts mostly because I've come to notice that they are also the same people who carry a self-righteous chip around on their shoulder all the time, and they're the same people who, when you try to actually talk with them about said issue, they argue with you about your viewpoint as if you are now the enemy because your perspective is ignorant and beneath them. It's almost like they want to bring these breaking world news stories to everyone's attention, to show everyone how "plugged in" they are to the inner circuit, but they don't want anyone to actually talk to them, agree, disagree or otherwise, because they feel that their viewpoint is the only one that is intelligent enough to even hold any weight in the matter. Blech. Disgusting. I'd rather talk with my kids about the latest news happenings on Yo Gabba Gabba.
I don't have cable. I don't read the news on my computer. I rarely will willingly seek out information if I've heard rumblings of it within my circle of family and friends. Take the latest "Uterus Scandal" in my state for example. All of the sudden, I see everyone posting crap about incorporating their uterus, and wear a UTERUS button, and people are shouting out the word "uterus" at every turn. So, I take the time to look this one up. I waste 20 minutes of my life I can never get back reading the news story revolving around this ridiculous use of the word, and all the hubbub surrounding it in the government now. Apparently it's made national news! Are you kidding. If you haven't heard, please don't waste your time reading about it. Anyway...Call me small minded. Call me unpatriotic. Call me ignorant. Call me whatever you will. I don't care. I have about 10,000 other things in my life to do, that I feel are way more important, than to sit around and "oh my gosh, did you see that" about the crap in the news or in the world of politics. I have a marriage to attend to, kids to raise, bills to pay, a job to do, and apparently a blog to write that all take precedence before the happenings of our world that I couldn't give two craps about.
The ONLY exception I have to any of the above, is the military. I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for our military and what they sacrifice for us everyday. They are the ones who DO go out there and "do something about" all the crap we see on the news. I am heartbroken when I see another military family who loses a loved one, only to have that story trumped by the scumbag who beat his wife taking the Breaking News slot in their hometown's local news. If all that played on the news was stories about our heroes, I'd never turn it off. They deserve our respect and concern every day, more than what we give to the other nonsense in our communities. Far too often, our minds are consumed by the stupidity of the situations instead of who's trying to help combat those situations for us, and we all need to remember the members of our military both active and reserve, military families, and military leaders in their quest for the safety and protection of our freedom to enjoy all of the luxuries we as Americans have come to enjoy, including but not limited to sitting around watching mindless and endless garbage on the news.
I don't have cable. I don't read the news on my computer. I rarely will willingly seek out information if I've heard rumblings of it within my circle of family and friends. Take the latest "Uterus Scandal" in my state for example. All of the sudden, I see everyone posting crap about incorporating their uterus, and wear a UTERUS button, and people are shouting out the word "uterus" at every turn. So, I take the time to look this one up. I waste 20 minutes of my life I can never get back reading the news story revolving around this ridiculous use of the word, and all the hubbub surrounding it in the government now. Apparently it's made national news! Are you kidding. If you haven't heard, please don't waste your time reading about it. Anyway...Call me small minded. Call me unpatriotic. Call me ignorant. Call me whatever you will. I don't care. I have about 10,000 other things in my life to do, that I feel are way more important, than to sit around and "oh my gosh, did you see that" about the crap in the news or in the world of politics. I have a marriage to attend to, kids to raise, bills to pay, a job to do, and apparently a blog to write that all take precedence before the happenings of our world that I couldn't give two craps about.
The ONLY exception I have to any of the above, is the military. I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for our military and what they sacrifice for us everyday. They are the ones who DO go out there and "do something about" all the crap we see on the news. I am heartbroken when I see another military family who loses a loved one, only to have that story trumped by the scumbag who beat his wife taking the Breaking News slot in their hometown's local news. If all that played on the news was stories about our heroes, I'd never turn it off. They deserve our respect and concern every day, more than what we give to the other nonsense in our communities. Far too often, our minds are consumed by the stupidity of the situations instead of who's trying to help combat those situations for us, and we all need to remember the members of our military both active and reserve, military families, and military leaders in their quest for the safety and protection of our freedom to enjoy all of the luxuries we as Americans have come to enjoy, including but not limited to sitting around watching mindless and endless garbage on the news.
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