make your vote count

And I see that there is a primary in Illinois on Tuesday

You just happen to notice?  My god, my phone rings ten times a day on some robo call, I must get an equal number of those oversized mailers, tv is chock a block with accusations against opposition pols. it is a mudfest to beat the band.  If Old Dog manages to get his butt out into the blustery winds of the thirteenth he ought to vote for Kaegi to unseat that truly awful nepotist, soaker of the poor to give to the rich, crooked, lying sack of shit, Berrios, in the assessor's race..

We should indeed pay more attention to who is running, that is the thesis of my previous post, not all crooks are equally crooked and it behooves us well to study up and find out which crook is less crooked, or more like the kind of crook we like so that we may make intelligent decisions to better steer the ship of state.  Otherwise it aids the more crooked crooks to prosper and make the thesis that they are all crooks more true. 

Judges though, geez, who has the time?  The thing is they are mostly ok, but some of them are really rotten apples, and because nobody bothers to take that helpful list from the newspaper into the polls they all get elected.  My shorthand solution is to vote against all of them. This will add to the negative count of those good citizens who bring in the neighborhood list and maybe some of the worst candidates will not be retained.

The deafening noise, masquerading as information and news, has reduced us to a confused and frustrated mass no longer able to think clearly and make rational decisions.

Speak for yourself Lone Ranger.  I can still think clearly and make rational decisions.  And it's not like this is a new thing, it has ever been thus, well ever since democracy, back in the days of tyrants the king would make some effort at making people think he was a good guy but if you were still unconvinced he could just toss you into the dungeon. 

The robocalls are more irritating than the mailers, but the mailers, just by their sheer volume catch may attention.  In my building they wheel a garbage can right next to the mailbox during elections, os it's not too arduous to be rid of them, but just looking at that garbage can, what a waste.

Here's what they ought to do, host some kind of picnic or party for poor kids and then the guy can get a photo in the paper of himself surrounded by giggling moppets.  It wouldn't help us winnow the crooks, but at least the poor kids would have a good time.