Rants and Raves

There has been a great deal of heatead debate lately about who should fill the recently vacated Senate seats of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Without getting into the blatantly corrupt processes involved there(see Only In Politics  for that rant), the biggest and loudest voices of outrage cry out for Hillary’s slot to be filled by a woman and Barack’s to be filled by an African American. My big question about that is: Why?

 Why not choose a political candidate(or any other) based on real qualifications and experience for a change? No bribes, no racial profiling, just the facts. Here’s my proposition to solve this little problem: From this point forward, every potential candidate for office will be known to the public as candidate a, b, c, etc., revealing no name, no picture, and no soundbytes to anyone for any reason until the decision has been made through a public vote. Each candidate’s skills, abilities, and years of experience will be listed for different types of jobs while keeping the job titles and locations a secret so that the candidate’s real identity will be subject to a best guess, if that.

 Why would this be a better process? Because it’s cleaner. It takes out all of the garbage that tends to baselessly swing votes around, such as “oh, he’s a great speaker” or “I have to support my race/gender.” The whole idea of a public vote is so that candidates will have a better chance of being judged fairly instead of being subject to corrupt processes that can be controlled by those in power(again, see Only In Politics  for that rant). What the public vote has instead turned into is a fashion and eloquance contest that has nothing to do with who can govern better or more fairly.

Where has the ideal of America gone to be replaced by such rabble? Why don’t we teach the real histories of our founding fathers and discern their intent through the Constitution anymore? Since when does a judge or any other governing body have the right to eliminate constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms? America badly needs an operation, else I fear she won’t make it through the next night. When she wakes, she’ll be a horribly disfigured semblance of her former majesty, and she’ll be helpless to the domineering machinations of the outside world.

We need a change, America. And the only way to bring it about is to get off our keesters and make it happen ourselves. Or should we simply entrust it to a governing body with a single digit approval rating?