Blind Electiion

and the garbage piles up. Nose-blind by now, the public doesn’t even smell the increasing stench. Inured to the political slush, minds grind to a halt, gravitating to one or another single topic, ignoring other issues. Women’s rights, tariffs, Ukraine, deteriorating and threatening climate change, nuclear war, presidential ability, character, in one ear and out an eye. It’s the price of gas, they say, the cost of groceries, often controlled by world supply, and other economies. Real and threatening issues bear down on us, but we blindly accept the panaceas of political sound-bites as truth. Is this really an election, with a divided populace so many of whom see nothing, hear nothing, and know nothing but the lies they are fed?