The Ticket We Need

Election day is coming up on November 4th. For those of you unfamiliar with what that means, Election Day is the day on which we learn which stable of bought-and-paid-for politicians will take its turn to screw up the country and blame the other side. Conventional wisdom for the coming election says that the Republicans are likely to take control of the Senate and keep their control of the House of Representatives. I'm not quite sure this should be so, as ordinary working people ought to be smarter than to vote for a party whose policies are so antithetical to their interests, but as P.T. Barnum once said, there's a sucker born every minute. Or as Henry L. Mencken put it so elegantly, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

I'm afraid that come November 4th, you are likely to find Mr Mencken to be unusually prescient.

My problem with the upcoming election is the same as the problem I had with the last few: who out there is actually worth voting for? Do I vote for Republicans who have no platform other than to slash taxes and viscerally oppose anything the Democrats try to do; or for Democrats who tend to care more about the average American and have grand ideas but no sense of how to pay for them?

Today, though, I learned of a new candidate that looks promising ...

I think an Odin/Thor Ragnarok Party ticket may be just what the country needs right now ... a president who can hurl bolts of lightning and a vice president who can really put the hammer down just might be able to deal with a useless Congress, a surging China, Vladimir Putin, the rabidly vicious "Islamic State," and ebola. Probably all before lunch on inauguration day.

And Chuck Norris is available if they need a Secretary of Defense.

Have a good day. Vote Odin/Thor ... you could do worse.

And, sadly, you probably will.

More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo