Political Peter Pans

Yesterday I had the honor of being a guest on The Austin Hill Show.

Austin is on vacation and his guest host was IdahoConservativeBlogger.com. (ICB's identity remains anonymous, so that the message he provides on his blog and when he's on the air, is the main thing - not him.) He's not about developing a following, as so many political folks hope for.

The show went well and the hour and a half whisked by....

Then, last night and this morning I began to think about so many of the politicians and talking heads of both parties that ICB and I discussed on the show yesterday: Rep. Charley Rangel, my friend Rep. David Dreier, the late Senator Ted Kennedy, President Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Rep. Barney Franks, etc....

They simply do not leave the stage.

They LIVE for a following. Like the Pan living on the island of the Lost Boys, they jerk about looking tough at one moment and fearfully fleeing away at the next...wanting to be helped or liked.

And the very act of them wanting us to "like" them began to seem even more insane as I pondered the process overnight.

American political leaders/speakers wanting to spend, spend, spend or to berate, berate, berate...all the while FAILING to solve the very practical problems that you and I are facing: the percentage of our income being taxed, the financial irresponsibility by the D's and the R's and the Viet Nam war-like loss of life that has become all too common place for most exhausted citizens.

No REAL limiting of their terms in office. They never go away. It's like  a boat full of animated characters from a film. Scripted, positioned and doing "things"....but it's not real. Always there....

Clever speeches by foolish little boy-men dressed up in what they think are their fathers' suits of clothes. Little women-politios trying to have certain men knock the chip off their female shoulders, so they can be she-males of gargantuan proportion. Social agendas that most people in Omaha, Boise or El Paso couldn't care less about. These odd-people seem to be actors on a stage in front of an audience that can't believe how terrible the plot and their acting REALLY is.

As I said on the air yesterday, the whole thing reeks of goofy theatrics from  a sort-of "Bad High School"...and these people are leading us: conservative AND liberal.

Worse than that, these people are Peter Pans, never wanting to grow up and do what real live adults do.

At times, Rush Limbaugh may indeed be "a big fat idiot", as now-Senator Al Fanken entitled his anti-Rush book, years ago...but look at Franken. His failure to stand up against a miserable Harry Reid is unconscionable - if in fact he came to DC to "stand up".

Who's the big fat idiot now?

Blah, blah, blah.

Look, America is good because its people are generally good. Yet, only 11% of the people of America believe in their Congressional leaders, according to a recent poll.

And...?

And that is NOT good. It is a tsunami building up pressure. The passion of Americans has always been to serve others and NOT be served, (as if they are royalty). Yet is that changing?

When 9 newly-minted West Point Cadets refused on the first day of training this summer to raise their hands and pledge an oath to the United States of America, something is STARTING to be really wrong.

When the Congress is unwilling to aggressively police Charlie Rangel or (way back when) Barney Franks...and all these non-adults are running the country, it becomes patently obvious to the casual observer that America is in the midst of a full blown Peter Pan effect -

Leaders refuse to act like adults, sorta-adults refuse to run for office against them for fear of this or that, the talking heads (mostly conservative) scream and consider it dialog and the nation cries deeply.

Can America really come out of it?

More on that this week here on my blog.

Den

Comments

[Dennis Mansfield]

Hi Cindy.
Thanks for both of your responses. Good thoughts.

And my post was not done in sarcasm - thanks for asking about that, too. I am truly asking the questions. As a former-rabble rouser, I've had time to look back and ask "what worked and what did not?"....and because I was at the forefront of so many of those rally-events, I DO believe that crowds can crowd out the Lord. Not everything is a solemn assembly. Sometimes events have more nefarious reasons that even the participants are not aware of. I don't suspect Glenn Beck of these things...I am more specifically asking about some of those who attend. It is easy to complain, even easier still to show up en masse and complain. It is very, very difficult work to get our hands dirty in the filthy things of other people's lives - one at a time....our neighbors.

Den

[Cindy Jones]

I'm sorry Dennis, but I've got to ask, "This isn't sarcasm?"