LESS EXCITING This election time of the year has seemed to me be far less "exciting"" than many I have known in the past.
I have wondered, too if it could possibly be a passing fancy for me to feel that we have, indeed, changed and become less intent on our future than we have been; modified, in a curious manner, our seemingly basic ideas, in particular about group associations.
I am convinced that the continued use of negative advertising materials in radio, TV and print form has been one reason for my tendency to avoid the tendered subject or to treat it lightly rather than seriously as it should be taken. I am not the least bit interested in what some smart-talking whiz kid
thinks elected officials might be doing that which has decided is wrong. I want to know what might be suggested to solve problems rather than to create new ones. I want to know what steps they would take if given the chance to do so. It quickly becomes obvious they do not know what they might do.
Historians a few years from now will, no doubt, look for reasons why our attitudes might change. They will be looking in places where we may hesitate to set foot. So much of what we actually do in the political areas of living leads back to the days of F.D.R. We look back to the days of "The Great Depression" but not to dwell on tragic event itself, but rather to look at the tactics F.D.R. used to try to overcome the oppressive tedium which bound us. Some ideas were, in truth, questionable, some impractical, and some were, in time, declared to have been illegal.
The point was that he did something. He took action against he problems we faced. Our government took some rather radical steps in those days, things which Herbert Hoover could not have done been allowed to do. I have never been a "Hoover hater" person. I think a worth man got a raw deal in the way he was treated by so many citizens and some opposition party members. Neither have I ever been an ardent Roosevelt devotee. I, on his arrival of the national political scene accepted the premise that, as our President, he deserved proper respect and support. I early accepted his being where and what he was and I stayed with him all the way.
The current election seems to be centered too much on placing men and women where the will "fit in" party plans rather than where they might perform duties on behalf of the people rather than special tricks for those who elected him or her.
Next Tuesday you choose what your tomorrow and tomorrows will be. Do so with special care.
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 11-4-06 [c-478wds]
