I saw two girls get in a fight one time when I was a teenager. The school bus let us off right in front of my house, and I remember they started going at it the second they stepped off. I had never seen anything like it. They didn’t fight like guys did. One took the other down almost instantly (on my front lawn, no less), and they immediately started punching, kicking, pulling hair and ripping at clothes. It seemed the desired outcome was less about fighting and more about simply embarrassing or humiliating the other person. At the end of it, the “losing” girl had her shirt ripped completely off. The fight ended with that.
We had election results on last night, and I thought how much like that fight political campaigns seem to be—at least as far as ads and commercials go. They so very often seem to have nothing at all to do with the merits of the candidate paying for the commercial, and focus on what a crappy _____ the other candidate is. Seldom is a campaign run any other way.
We question the opposing candidate’s intelligence, political loyalty, fealty to the United States, patriotism, and even sexuality at times.
I don’t know about you, but I would rather hear what the candidate I am considering voting for actually supports, and how they’re going to achieve it.
It’s on all sides of an issue, office, or candidate as well. People are so crappy to each other. And they fight so dirty.
I hate politics. At least this election is over. I can go back to watching commercials.
A Work in Progress 