Why I'm Bothering

I had the good fortune to go door-to-door for McGovern on the riverfront in Davenport, Iowa in 1972.  I meant people who didn't have any idea what the hell I was talking about, looking through the worn out screens of their closed doors.  

A blind man let me in, just by saying so.  I never really saw him in the dark of the room across the dog-shit littered porch.  I asked him if he was going to vote and he said, Sure, and laughed.  I asked him if he wanted a ride to the polls.  Sure, he said, and laughed.

He told me I was young.  He told me he'd lost "the franchise" and a good part of his life for stealing a chicken in Mississippi when he was 14.  That was when I knew why I couldn't see him.

I decided to start this blog now, a week before the 2010 election, because I think we've all joined him.  We've lost the franchise, and we're invisible - but we've become this way because we've chosen to be blind.  It's just easier this way.

Let's be honest.  We know what's going on.  Money talks.  Period. End of story.  And it will only be spent on what the ones that's got it want it spent on.  And if you have money, you do not need to worry about health care, about education, about the environment or global warming (You think?).  

If you have money, you worry about your money and making sure it's making more money.  That means you do not want anyone taking your money and giving it to other people, which is what government programs do. 

I maybe mistaken, but that's the way I see it going at this point.