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Sometimes it seems to me that everyone expects everyone else to be just exactly like them. You know how like every time there's an election, whether it's state or local or national, politicians always run commercials that say like, "Jim Barber knows what it's like to work for a living. He grew up chopping cotton as a migrant farm worker in the 1930's."
It's like, here's a guy who speaks the plain, simple, honest truth. He knows how you feel and what you need. And then they show a businessman stuck in traffic, or an old guy driving a tractor, or an old woman sitting in a rocking chair, and they all talk about how honest Jim Barber is and how you can trust him and blah blah blah, because Jim Barber is, in short, exactly like you.
First of all, this is total crap, ok? But I'll get to that in a minute.
The main point I want to make is this. If I'm going to vote for Jim Barber to go to Washington and represent me and the 32 million other people in my state, is it too much to ask that he or she be better than me, or at least a little smarter? As for me personally, if I just wanted some random idiot to go to Washington and stand around looking like a doofwad, I would run for office myself. I've got years of experience at that and I'm really really good at it. In fact, when I got there I would have to vote myself a raise.
I don't blame the politicians who tell everyone that they're just regular, ordinary people. I do blame their idiot constituents who require it of their leaders, and then get outraged when these same guys get caught sniffing coke off a hooker's cleavage, just like a regular guy would do.
OK, so here's the thing. These folks spend so much time and money convincing us that they're just regular working joes like us; it's almost as much time and money that they spend telling us how experienced and educated they are, and how much they've accomplished in their shining careers. In other words, they're a million times better than us. And coincidentally, they're two million times better than the person they're running against.
Because the person they're running against is a rat bastard, a liar, a swindler, who hates the elderly and small children and can't wait to start poisoning the environment by leaking tobacco from his breast implant factory.
Say like Jim Barber is running against Joe Skeevy. See, Jim Barber is experienced and accomplished; Joe Skeevy is a "career politician" and a "Washington Insider". One is good and the other is bad, even though they all mean the same exact thing.
Everyone does it, everyone spins the same facts as good or bad, and then wonder why no one trusts politicians.
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