Not a Very Sarcastic Post in its Intent

With Advance Apologies to Grammie . . .

While this may be the first time you've seen this idea in print, I know that I am not the first person to have harbored this thought. It may have application in other facets of Life Itsownself. The thought first formed itself in my mind during some prior pre-election furor:

IF YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT TO BE ELECTED TO A POLITICAL OFFICE, THE FACT THAT YOU WANT THAT OFFICE IMMEDIATELY DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM HOLDING THAT OFFICE.

Simple, huh? Political parties would have to find qualified individual who DIDN'T want to run for the office. It could be done. Appeals could be made to patriotism, to the person's vanity, to his pride. The qualified person would have to be convinced to give up his chosen way of life for X-number of years, to serve one term and then he could return to the private sector, having done his duty.

There are good people out there, with no skeletons in their closets, very capable of running a city, a state, and yes, even this country. You probably know some such people. Heck, you may even BE such a person.

But The Vested Interests would never allow it. Political offices have become too good a living for the eager beavers who "serve" us now and they'd be loathe to the N'th degree to give up the lifestyle of the Rich & Famous that politics has become.

But don't hesitate to take this to heart, and don't hesitate, the next time you find your hand being pumped by some eager office-seeker to ask him, "Hey, do you really want this office?" And when he or she answers, "Yes," you look him or her straight in the eye and tell him or her that his/her answer automatically disqualifies him or her from holding that office. If enough of us start saying that, we'll end up being rounded up and put into concentration camps.

Some day the devisiveness of political contests will make enough of us ashamed and a group of bloggers will lead us out of the wilderness and into a promised land of (____Fill in your own blank____).