Just something off the top of my head:

I follow about 10 different news agencies… some local, some global, but mostly national. And, I just noticed something. It may be that I’m missing something, but it seems like there was a lot of new about politics, and about Americans were unhappy with the government, and how fucked up everything is, and bitch, bitch, bitch, moan, moan, moan, etc, etc, etc. And this has been going on for the last two or three years… So much so that I don’t really remember when all the ridiculous amounts of political coverage started (hazarding a guess, I’d say the last year of Bush).

And I'm unhappy, damnit!

Oh, but there’s always been a ton of political coverage, etc, etc.

But I mean… not as much as the last couple years… where it was like 2/3 headlines was: politicians does this or that, or political scandal, or so-and-so is a damned dirty liar, or Americans unhappy with government, or whatever.

And none of it was so much news as just like… the written equivalent of screaming at the top of your lungs.

And then, the last couple of weeks… suddenly…

nothing.

It’s like a void.

Now, the only news about politics you hear about is a few mentions about foreign politics in the middle east, and republicans suddenly talking about how they support obama and “it’s not their place to tell americans what to think” even though that’s exactly what they’ve been doing for the last 10 months. But even then, it’s still scant.

This smells kinda fishy. Kinda like there a group of people who were pushing to get certain things turned into news… like they were focusing on a small percentage of people, documenting their opinions and experiences, and then presenting it as the viewpoint and position of the majority.

Like… this group of people was trying to get something changed… perhaps get themselves in power… and then, they reached their goal… so now they don’t have to spend the resources telling us the world is going to end.

…And of course I’m talking about the republican party. Duh. (I’m neither republican nor democrat by the way. I’m a Meat Popsicle.)

Unfortunately… there’s a few problems with this: First off, they spent so much time whipping people into an unhappy fury that they’ve accidentally created a few segments of the population which are inevitably going to cause a backlash against politicians in general. No, I’m not talking about the Tea Party, because the Tea Party was just an objective oriented shard of the republican party, from everything I’ve investigated about it. I’m talking rather about the offshoots from the Tea Party. The Tea Party people who didn’t fit into the Tea Party, or got kicked out of the Tea Party.

Second, unless they’re planning on spending resources to convince people that things are better under them, people will eventually realize that nothing has really changed… And then next election cycle, their converts will flop back to democrats.

Blah blah blah. I forgot what I was talking about. Anyways, the talk of the Tea Party made me start humming a song… so… Music Video time!