The wishy-washy nature of the current White House’s agenda, the congressional right-wing that seems to be stuck on “NO”, the party in power who doesn’t act like they’re in power, the spike in partisanship, not to mention the either glorifying or demeaning (with no amount of middle ground) media outlets, all these things and more are of course affecting the political  environment of this country as we move into decade two of the future, the 2000’s.  But there is one facet of the American experience that isn’t discussed all that often by political analysts, outlets, and collectors: the increasing childish ignorance and inconsistency of the American voter.  I say “voter” because somewhere around 40% of the  country does not vote.  Whether that means they simply don’t care or they don’t seem to like any of the candidates is irrelevant.  I envy these people.  I don’t wanna care.  I’m sick of caring.  Can’t I live blissfully ignorant of the GIGANTIC problems these United States of America face in a post-modern world?  It’s like staring down the barrel.  More and more of those who do care, who do vote, who do play the political game, don’t know what the hell they want.  They can’t.  Not when the same person — a lanky, quiet girl I went to high school with; who inexplicably turned neo-conservative — posts two very different things on Facebook less than two weeks apart: 1) “Control spending, spendocrats!  Do you care at ALL about the deficit?!?”, and 2) “Obama’s raising federal employees and military by only 1.4%!  What the hell is ur problem Mr. Prez?!?”.  Let me explain.  This shy girl, who liked to read classical literature, who for whatever reason now rolls extreme far right, was bitching about government spending very recently.  Talking bout how her and my generation will be paying for all this debt, how it’s unAmerican and even unconstitutional.  “Okay”, I thought to myself, “fair enough.  You don’t like debt, you especially don’t like paying for it.  You want the government to slash some of its spending.  Save a little cash.  Makes sense.”  Well, no, it really doesn’t if the next political statement you’ve got to make is about how it’s bullshit for the government to not give federal employees and military a higher pay raise.  That’s just a plain old contradiction.  So, those of you bitching about just about everything the government’s trying to do: pick ONE.  Either you want the fed’s to cut their spending, or you want federal employees and military personnel to get higher pay.  For Christ’s sake, you can’t possibly think you can have both!!  Can YOU???

-D