Excuse me! Herman Cain is NOT the problem. We are.
We who feed into this media frenzy of 'freaks,' wannabes' and 'never will' be's. The diversion to the cartoon network of presidential hopeful's is on.
Did this 'stupid' syndrome begin with George W. Bush? I'm thinking yes on that. If he proved anything he proved that anyone can get to the White House. You don't have to be smart, just rich or well connected.
Not saying George W wasn't a good, God fearing man at heart, but at the brain level? You got the idea that all that hard partying he did till he was forty left some definitive brain damage.... does the name "Rick Perry" come to mind here? He does George W better than George W did and he only 'wants' to be president. No wonder he really believes he is great on the Stump and the next incarnation of Ronald Reagan. Oh that's right they all think that. Back to the point at hand.
A shrink would probably call the current field of republican candidates delusional or grandiose behavior. I call them the new norm. Anyone can run for president, you just have to be bought and paid for. Leave your credentials in your own head... who needs them. Sarah Palin taught us that one. I don't mean to be cynical but it is clear someone has to put the brakes on the mockery that is the political game in America. Most of Congress is so out of touch with the voters that they can't even pass a jobs bill. They could bail out Wall Street, they could take us to a bogus war in Iraq with faulty evidence but they can't put their constituents who need them, back to work, or keep them in their homes or create a tax system that is fair.
Here comes candidate Cain. He is someone the Koch brothers and the corporations and the special interests have told us stands for 'our' values. What, really? If you don't like his ideas how about Mitt Romney's ideas, um, this week? Or Michele Bachmann's; or take your pick, they all stand for one thing: sub-par choices.
If the current president was smart, and that may be his biggest problem, he would change the campaign finance laws, give us a flat tax that works for everyone -- try 3% -- and run on his record of being tough on war criminals. A winning platform for him would be to find a way to fight corruption on wall street that counts, fighting child poverty, getting rid of voter suppression and fixing the housing mess... but oh wait, those are real issues and that is not what the Congress or the media seems to want to focus on.
We find ourselves discussing the women Herman Cain may or may not have sexually harassed. We find ourselves consumed with Kim Kardashian and her fake marriage and we forget that the next person without food on their table might just be one of us or our loved ones.
That's what we are on the way to if we don't stop the dumbing down of our culture and the fixation on bickering and side tracking. We have to wake up to what is smart and what is right.
The clock on our "American Dream" future is ticking. If we aren't careful it might just stop and then where will we be. Oh yea Zimbabwe!