Politics, like sex and religion should have been talked about more. Given the founders vision, politics might have been fun and adventuresome, and just as with sex and religion, we individuals were to be an integral part of the process. Really, it was meant to be all about us rather than the state. Built right in was enough grace for one and all that should we get it wrong on any given try, we’d readily have an opportunity to get it right next time around. Sadly, just as with sex and religion, busybodies and authoritarians tend to make a mess of things; not in a good way mind you.

I have been a politico since my middle school days. I can share with a high degree of certainty that the fun is about gone from politics. Less and less can I smile as my observations take flight on thrusts of irreverence, and more and more it seems there are great hordes of evil “do gooders” sucking the mirth out of a dynamic which now can affect almost any aspect of our way of life without our permission.

Oh well, we are still free to enjoy plenty of love and worship of those whom we adore. But hey don’t say, “they can’t take away my affections and loyalties.” That is simply not so. So let’s do our best to keep laughing and amusing ourselves at the expense of the boors in charge, but let us also keep our eyes wide open, except perhaps during sex or meditation, you choose, it’s really none of my business.

DL