I was looking at this image of the spill, entitled "Damn." That sums it up pretty well. However, because I'm also a masochist, I went through and read some of the comments, and this struck a chord:
You could chuck out even[sic] single incumbent in the House and Senate and not a single thing would change, you’d just get different faces telling the same lies.
It's not a unique sentiment. It's not new. But I wonder about it. I mean, let's assume best-case scenario; Dave and I are in charge. Two individuals, impervious to corruption, leading the free world. How long would it take us to fall? Is our system just doomed to repeat this sort of bullshit? Should we, could we create our own party immune to the moral reprehensibility that comes with public office?
Well, the Tea Partiers formed a political party, and they're barely literate. This is why I propose the "Fuck Off Party." Our tenets are simple, because people don't like things that are complicated. Wanna do something to endanger public/global health? Fuck off. Wanna play the stock market like a hacked slot machine and then complain to us when you run out of money? Fuck off. Wanna conveniently make a big stink out of wedge issues like abortion and immigration every time an even-numbered year comes around? Fuck off. In fact, our organization's founder(s) are working on a document, called the "Articles of Fuck Off" designed to cover nearly every conceivable situation the party might encounter in its race to the Oval Office.
Think you have what it take to join the FOP? Start writing up your own list of tenets and post them as a comment.
Wade, you are so NOT above corruption. But I take your point anyway.
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