AMERICAN POLITICS AND DRIVE-THROUGH CULTURE

Americans are an impatient bunch, with the attention span of butterflies. They pay for their meals through one window, and collect same through the other window. A little hesitation trying to inquire regarding seasonings, or checking to make sure orders are complete, promptly infuriates the line with potential customers shouting obscenities. The institution of marriage has also witnessed the effect of this culture as would-be couples now consummate their weddings via the ubiquitous drive-through window. The history why Americans would routinely want to eat their cakes and still have them, cannot be traced very easily, but suffice to say TV viewing culture and the multiplicity of channels has accentuated this madness. With too many channels to choose from, Americans just seat there flipping channels after channels hardly completing a program. This attitude has infiltrated the political arena, and politicians are being required to transform the society through the wave of the proverbial magic wand. President Obama and his Democratic Party were the newest casualties.

Americans have grown too fat, too comfortable with our exceptional ism status and expect our leaders to possess God-like qualities in tackling pressing national and global issues, and when we couldn't find those qualities in President Obama and his Democratic party, we voted for the Republicans, whom we had roundly trounced just two years ago.

THE POLITICS OF THE PROFESSIONAL LEFT

I am willing to heap all the blames for the dismal performance of the Democratic Party during the midterm elections on the fragile laps of the Professional Left - those liberals who are so pure so refined for politics,that they allowed the Professional Right to define and interpret the political climate and discourse as they wished. The Conservative right is populated by individuals who have no business looking after the welfare of regular folks but have found the way of presenting a different but friendly face. Day in day out, Conservative talk show hosts drive home their talking points on any give national issues. The Right have so mastered the American pulse and temperaments, that they do not see the need even to pretend as to their real intentions. And this is because the Left is not capable of unmasking them for who they really are. Granted that talk radio is 1 to 9 in favor of the Conservatives, and they are leveraging this advantage to the max. This should have motivated the Left to devote more air time for politics and politics alone. Rather, they are all over the map discussing mundane issues like astrology, the world wars, sports and the like. Meanwhile, the Right is busy blaming the President for anything that goes wrong, while taking credit for any semblance of recovery.
Take for example the recent claim by Republican #2 man in congress that the news that private sector employment was increasing proved that the Bush's tax cut for the rich was fruitful. Even as I write, no Liberal voice has risen to challenge him. Senate minority leader just recently bragged that the President would have to tilt right for any compromise to material. How has the Left responded? Of course, its sheer arrogance, they said. If President is to survive the present Republican onslaught, it's not going to come as a result of liberal support and push. The Republican are just going to prove without fail that they are for the corporations, and the suffering masses would revert to lesser evil: the Democratic party.