Fast Food and Politics

You have no doubt seen tantalizing photos from the fast food industry promoting their products.  The hamburgers are always plump and juicy.  The hamburger is perfectly stacked.  The ingredients are obvious in the picture:  the tomatoes are red, the pickles can be seen, and the sauce never drips over the side.  Everything is perfect; all is well with the world.

But when you buy that hamburger, what you get isn't what they advertised.  The product is unbelievably sloppy.  The sauce drips over the side.  The bun has been manhandled and often the imprint of a hand can be seen in the surface.  The onions are falling out of the center.  The meat patties are not stacked; sometimes they appear to have smashed together so that the slice of cheese between them can be forced to ooze out.

Not clear yet?  Take a look at this.

This is analogous to a political campaign.  The candidate is much like the advertised image of a fast food product.  Once elected, the candidate transforms into the reality of a fast food product. 

Last I heard, we have 23 candidates for President between the two parties.  It's possible that out of the 23 we have two, maybe three of them, that do not fit this fast food analogy.  But will even one of those two or three survive the primary process?

Odds are, it's going to be a contest between the two parties to give us a choice between two nominees who the are most unqualified.  There might not even be half a dime's worth of difference between the nominees.

I'm tired of this "lesser of two evils" decision that I'm asked to make every four years.

I wish I was wrong about this.

More so than my wishing I was wrong about what half the people in Las Vegas are up to.