Pause For Reflection

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We live in an electronic age of words without thoughts. We live in an age of music where neither lyrics nor melodies contain enough memory to conjure up a reflective theme. There is no commercial need. America no longer pauses for reflection.

The brain dead, baby boomer, boob tube generation is quickly being replaced by a culture of gamer-boy eunuchs and cell phone nymphos.

Who has time for reflection when you are posing for a selfie with your latest cheeseburger to post on Facebook?

Politicians tailor their words for these simpletons with slogans that will entice the lemmings to line-up obediently and follow them over the cliff on election day, such as, "Make America Great Again," or the shamelessly vague, "I'm With Her."

Do you really think Hillary is with YOU? Get real!

If George W. Bush and Barack Obama have proven how susceptible democracy is to the banality of evil, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are living proof that evil does indeed exist in today's world and maybe the time has come to consider pulling the plug on this ailing experiment.

Yes, American democracy looks perfect on paper. Perfect that is, until it is put into practice by drawing upon the available work force.

For almost an entire generation, American's politicians have been oozing out of the same
outhouse muck looking for a job with lots and lots of perks that also gives them access to the taxpayer's money so they may dole it out as patronage to their friends, allies and relatives in exchange for a little kickback to line the pockets of their personal political franchise that will help return them to office next election so they may refresh themselves again at the public till.

This is but a variation on the theme, "What goes around, comes around."

A variation entirely at the expense of an unreflective electorate.