Elections make me tired...

   Yes I'm about to post about politics. I have a question: When in the history of politics and such has yelling, muck-raking, and passing judgement proven to be an effective conversion tactic? Yes, I know it's tradition. Quite frankly I, and everyone else I know, am tired of it. The election is over. Thank goodness. Unfortunately, now I have to deal with the two kinds of posts surrounding me: The ones who are celebrating, and those who are convinced that the US is now going to hell in a hand-basket.
   We get promised the moon (at least that's the way it feels for how attainable it will be,) but during the campaign (should be spelled C-A-M-P-A-I-N) we get no answers. Only blanket statements that tell us nothing. "Make an informed choice." REALLY?!?!?!? How am I supposed to do that when I can't access facts no matter where I look? Every outlet has a bias, some more obvious than others. Regardless of the spin-doctoring, we take the media at its word. We've stopped asking questions because we're tired. We're tired of being lied to. We're tired of second guessing everything we hear. We're tired of having to defend our opinions/actions to people who have no business knowing. We're tired of being told we're idiots.
   All the candidates say one thing, and we the public, are guaranteed that everything they said is not going to happen. It becomes about their pocketbooks, and at this point, I'm talking about Congress and the House; state and national level. Money talks, and it's telling those of us with no power to shut up.
   It's frustrating when I feel like none of my options have presented a detailed and functional plan to fix the problems, and if I voice this concern, all I get is talked over and make to feel like a moron. Now I keep my mouth shut. And for the record, I never tell anyone who I vote[d] for. What good will it do? I already get yelled at enough about politics, and that goes for you random phonebakers who somehow got my cell-phone number...
   I'm such a Pollyanna though. I still continue to cast my vote come election day in the hope that somehow, this work itself out.
  
   This concludes my first and final political post. Thank you.