
I don’t understand the fever about the coming presidential election. I totally understand how the process works, but what I don’t get is why people get worked up into such a frenzy about it. Maybe someone out there can explain it to me.
Unless I’m living in the wrong country, the president isn’t a King or Dictator. What I mean by that is he/she doesn’t run the country. He/she doesn’t tell everyone else what to do and then they do it.
Now, if it were that way, I could see how everyone would be taking this election so seriously because the person elected might actually have a affect on them. The truth is, the president just signs laws into effect. The president is a talking head for the country, and he/she tries to save face as often as possible while hiding the flames of destruction they are fanning.
If we get a bad president, it’s because we wanted a bad president. You read that right. The citizens elect the ones in power. YOU elect the congress, the senators and the president. If you are dismayed at the condition of the leadership of the country and looking to place blame, just look in the mirror. The congress, the senate and the president are a reflection of the people who desired them, over the people who didn’t.
You are the congress. You are the senate. You are the President. You’re the reason they are where they are. So, stop blaming the “government” for all your woes. YOU ARE the government. The mess is yours.
How so, you might ask. It began with the morals and principles you raised your children with, and your parents raised you with, and their parents before them. The government is the barometer of parenting, coupled with the “majority rules” factor. If the majority of people had high standards and high moral values then the people elected to office (You know: your cousins, your fathers, your mothers, your neighbors, your bosses, your sisters, your brothers) would be that kind of person.
Here’s the wheat: Principles and morals built this country and principles and morals are tearing it down.
Here’s the tare: It’s not my fault, the government did it, the government owes me.
Which one do you believe?
My grandmother had a great saying. She used to say, “If you can’t stand the heat, quit feeding the fire.”

Of course, most of you are familiar with the “it’s not my fault” version that goes like this, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
As the country goes down in flames, I wonder how many will run from the flames, and how many will stoke them. The ones who run are the same as the ones who stoke them except they have the “it’s not my fault” attitude. But I say, it is your fault. Shouldn’t you have put that fire out a long time ago?
Like grandpa used to say, “If you can’t run with the big dogs, you’d better get up early and get a big head start!”