CONJECTURES OF A RECOVERING DILETTANTE
"Pizzaonia Emerging" courtesy of the Pizzaonian Art Institute, Abe Straction, curator
October 2014
In America’s current political dilemma it is hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys without a program. I have a program and I can’t tell them apart.
All I know is there’s something wrong here and it’s serious. At a time when the nation needs everyone pulling together, we have elected politicians who are either so callous they care only for themselves, or they have become misanthropes so infatuated with their myopic vision of America they have lost their way.
So its time to throw the rascals out, but who do we put in their place except another rascal? This is our dilemma. So I propose another action. We do nothing.
Strange as this seems it may be our only solution. Each election we go to the polls. We have a choice: we vote for the incumbent; we vote for the main challenger, or we vote for some relatively unknown politician who is as likely to be elected as my becoming the President. And, no matter what we do we always end up in the same place. Obviously, this isn’t working.
So how about doing nothing – well almost nothing. We show up at the polls on Election Day and we turn in an empty ballot. Just think what the effect could be – about 132 million Americans show up on Election Day and seventy per cent of them don’t vote for anyone. Wow, that would be some message! At least we would finally get someone’s attention.
The nut cases on the right and the left would vote their usual Pavlovian choices, but the rest of us would simply say, no thanks, none of you make the grade. Just maybe we would begin to take the country back. What a statement this would make this November. The numbers would tell the story.
What about someone starting a BLANK BALLOT PARTY (BB PARTY), an ad hoc, unofficial organization in name only, with no candidates, leaders or platform other than informing our political parties, so-called elected leaders, professional patriots, political talk show hosts and all news networks we want our country back
Now that's an idea worth thinking about.
John Frank Giovanni, commenting for the Pizzaonian Newsertainment Network, Diverti Mento, editor
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