The Political Block

So what I am telling you in this blog is how the political world works.

It takes 20 years to walk around the political block, and the walk begins in early adulthood.

For the first 20 years of your life you don’t know anything and you don’t care about anything; your job is to get to adulthood.

Plus you want to have a good time. The opposite sex, getting drunk, partying and sports is far more appealing than the matters of the Middle East.

Sure, during the first 20 years you are told the basic myths of America, like George Washington, throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac river, but these myths seem harmless to you.

Although they aren’t.

Your first walk around the political block begins when you are 20 years old.

It ends when you are 40 years old.

During that period of time is your first real exposure to politics as an adult.

You’re going to believe fervently in whatever poison you choose to partake of.

It is your first exposure to more sophisticated political lies. You don’t know any better. You will accept what they tell you, and you will become cocksure that you know the truth.

Your parents will humor you to your neverending irritation.

Obviously, mom and dad are stupid, old-school and unenlightened.

The world has clearly changed you tell yourself. Your ideas are the panacea that will fix the world.

Then, between the ages of 40 and 60, you will walk around the political block again.

You will begin to notice things that don’t make sense, especially since things are just as broken as they ever were.

You will see old political figures resurface to tell you the same stuff that you heard before.

But you’re smarter now, and you remember that those solutions didn’t work.

If they had worked, these old politicians wouldn’t be offering solutions.

Why didn’t you notice these things before?

Because it was your first time around the political block, you were just trying to get the lay of the land.

Plus, there’s nothing wrong with being patriotic. It’s fun to be patriotic.

On your second walk around the political block, however, you will see that things don’t seem as simple as you once thought they were. You will become a little confused .

That’s because you have more experience. You’re not a rube anymore.

Plus you were so cocksure in your early 20s that you were going to listen to anyone anyway.

But now you’re willing to open your mind a bit.

And as you near the end of your second political block, you will begin to become annoyed.

You will become annoyed because you will gradually come to the conclusion that you were lied to by the politicians you revered during your first walk around the political block.

Get ready though because the fun is just beginning.

As you move into your third walk around the political block between the ages of 60 and 80, you will become more than a little annoyed.

You will become either disgusted or angry.

You may even take it out on people in public.

You may even get labeled as a crank, or a curmudgeon.

That’s the way it is.

There will be no fourth walk around the political block, because more than likely you will have died. But not to worry, because a new generation of suckers is right behind you,

And the politicians will know how to play them like a fiddle.

And they will.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

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