“it is about us versus our politicians”

I’ve been feeling that way significantly. (which is why I left the party) Forget the little letter attached the the pol’s name. The endless stream of ridiculous answers and justifications all point to a patronizing drone of “Listen boys and girls, this is how we play in Washington. Our product is process. Pat-pat, there-there, now you are too naive to understand.”

We say Investigate, they reply, “and tie up congress?”

Then sensing frustration, get busy with token investigations of little fish - and the egrigious offenses stay entrenched in a system that seems to think better of questioning itself. (My Congressional To Do List: Investigate: Excessive Speculation in the Natural Gas Market), not that it isn’t important but I can think of a few I’d like to see ahead of it on the list.

I find myself equally frustrated by the insiders and political junkies. I loathe politics, I detest a game that requires I become some hardended, jaded, inertia-ridden Microvelli (little Machiavelli) in order to survive or escape eye-rolling ridicule. They tell us their inertia is somehow related to “Not having the Votes.”

Martin Luther King didn’t have the votes either, nor did Ceasar Chavez. The difference seems to be they believed in the imperative of their cause. I do not care - one jot - if by fighting I loose, as the goal of merely winning is morally bankrupt. Give me the dreamers, the idealists, the reformers and just a little bit of hope and I will be there.