Too often we forget public servants, also known as: politicians, cops, firefighters, teachers, DMV employees, street sweepers, building inspectors, game wardens, and snow plowers, are all either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Solution? Problem?
Indeed. Each one of these public servants have proven themselves to behaving in a pleasant or evil way over time. And there’s little in the way of recourse we – as a society – can do to rectify wrongs.
Being caught-up in seemingly endless traffic jams, arguing with the school board about sordid curricula, delayed building inspections, false accusations, denied services, and basic incompetency, create an elementary path to what amounts to theft through taxes.
We regularly hear about living in “the land of the free,” and “freedom,” but rarely experience those freedoms in these modern times. Since 1788 The United States of America has been living under The Constitution, written by a bunch of foreign transplants who had a vision – a vision that still exists, albeit on brittle, shaky ground.
Righting wrongs with civil servants has, as of late, proven to be arduous inasmuch as ‘where the buck typically stops’ is suddenly an ivory tower. Most complaints about making first graders read smut in school or dealing with surly DMV representatives go unheeded while some are even met with arrest.
Politicians who are usually the last resort when attempting to rectify a problem no longer remember why they were elected in the first place.
Congressfolk who feel civilians stepping foot inside The Capitol warrants a five-year prison sentence are not living up to their moniker ‘Representative.’ If they feel trespassing is a more heinous crime than arson, they need to tidy up their résumés.
Too often these Congressmen, Senators, mayors, county board members, aldermen, governors, and so on, wind up growing deep roots – too deep to sometimes remove – not unlike annoying, pesky weeds.
In fact, Chicago former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, while in office, proudly made a public statement that she would no longer give interviews to White folk. Only POC need to inquire. Divisive? Sure, but she’s somehow the victim in her own puny mind. Thank goodness she’s now gone.
Not to be outdone in the Everyone-is-Deprived-Except-White-People department, DC shadow Senator Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), clearly has too much time on her hands, and too few brain cells.
Where could this deep thinker begin to rectify societal wrongs? Of course, crash test dummies. Of course.
Yep, those plastic mannequins used in measuring safety of vehicles and airplanes, has suddenly caught her attention similar to shiny beads and laser lights to a cat.
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| St. Norton talking while still saying nothing |
Not unlike a squirrel crossing a busy road, Norton, out of the blue, realized crash test dummies have male features. I’ll repeat that so you won’t think my fingers stuttered while typing. Norton, out of the blue, realized crash test dummies have male features.
Of course, a sane person would ask the question just how sexually bigoted Norton is by attempting to identify and then summarily placing those individuals into arbitrary categories.
In an ardent effort of exercising equity and fairness, Norton introduced a bill to use crash test dummies that represent gender equality. No lie. Sure, it’s a big deal. No, it’s not.
But Norton somehow demonstrated how ignorant she really is, and why the District of Columbia is not a state, nor should be. Just wait until she realizes there are no dummies of color (DOC). I’ll wager that will be her next windmill to chase.
Speaking of chasing windmills, the Quixotic effort to fund America’s new war, President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., dragged us into, we are quickly sinking into the cesspool of another never-ending war.
Remember Afghanistan? That is the place the United States fought a half-hearted war following the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on our country. Spending between 2 and 6 trillion dollars on that debacle, Biden felt it important to end that war immediately. Immediately!
He hastily withdrew American troops leaving many allies behind, and placing numerous aides’ lives in jeopardy all for a photo opportunity while bragging about his leadership abilities. He conveniently forgot about the troops killed by a terrorist bombing during our exit. He claimed we were fighting a senseless conflict with no end in sight. Thank him.
It didn’t take long for President Quixote to find another quagmire for us, though. Ukraine! Within the last year and a half, we’re into Ukraine for $116,000,000,000, with no end in sight. Can you say “quagmire?”
We’re just beginning to make Ukraine our 51st state and are desperately trying to totally immerse our nation into a war in the Middle East. By way of background, Palestine’s Hamas lobbed rockets into Israel during their ground attack.
That incursion included killing innocent women, babies in their wombs, beheading children, and capturing elderly Jews – all the while live streaming their horrific mayhem on the internet. This appears to be leading into another endless war. But this time it’s different.
Our military is understaffed, most of our arms and munitions are either in Ukraine or were left in Afghanistan, our bank has no money, and those $84,000,000,000 in arms we left in Afghanistan are now showing up in our newest conflict with Palestine.
Politicians, along with civil servants, are like baby diapers – they’re full of poop and need to be changed often. Fortunately, politicians are subject to regular elections, which are akin to performance appraisals in the private sector.
Quickly upcoming is the time for constituents to exercise their right to vote in order to express a satisfactory or ‘beat-it’ verdict for the job auditions during their tenure in office.
All you civil servants please remember: I’m going to miss you.
