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I found this button for sale on www.zazzle.com for about $2.00. It pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with politics today. Get your religion out of my Constitution. Get your nonsense out of my elections. If you really want to support fully a government representative of the people, GET A FREAKING CLUE!!! Help find people jobs, do something for equal rights for all, and for the love of all that is sane, please stop finding candidates who fit nearly every diagnostic criteria of the DSM-IV-TR. (That's the checklist of symptoms for psychiatrists to diagnose mental illnesses)

I am now considering running for US Congress for PA. I will just be an insane person, then when I clearly win the support of Sarah Palin, the Teabaggers, and so on, I will just turn back into the proverbial pumpkin of sane and democratic representation.

You remember that, right? That time when the politicians were voted in not by who bought their campaigns, or selected by god, or whomever was the loudest, craziest voice in the mental ward, but by who best represented the registered voters. I feel like a revolutionary. Instead of being "stuck on stupid" I feel like if the voice of the constituency changes, so then should the voice of the public servant.

I believe whole-heartedly in the concept of democracy. We do not have that. Not even close. What we have is a giant puppy-mill that turns out celebrities-turned "politicians" who represent a class of Americans who are neither the majority, nor by all rights, probably mentally competent.

The mere fact that we are little-by-little willing to turn over money and attention to crazy people says specifically that we are no better. We are becoming a nation of insane people who watch CNN like it is MTV. Remember when CSPAN was really boring, and all they did in the houses of Congress were vote on bills, balance budgets, and you could still fall asleep happily.

That was nearly ten national disasters, two terms of Dubya, two wars, and the biggest economic deficit since the Great Depression-ago. Remember when? Ah, when the scariest thing to think of was The Exorcist? Now the scary things are home foreclosures, candidates who are no more qualified for politics than I am (which I am NOT), and whether or not our planet will still be spinning at the right temperature and position after 2012.

Apocalypse withstanding, this is a plea for ANYONE who has not yet registered to vote. Please register and vote. Vote for someone who is capable of dealing with the tough answers, not someone who would make a fantastic cover of US Weekly.