Why THEY are Ignoring YOU...

Welcome to the Front Porch!! Where your opinions are needed and welcome.

Mystified at the brazen disregard of your wishes by your 'employees' (read 'elected officials' and un-elected 'public servants')? A childood memory may help you eliminate your frustrated bewilderment. Then you may address the roots of the problem with clarity. Hint: the solution does not involve simply plugging new wires (different people) into the same old gizmo(the State).

Try this:

Close your eyes and let your thoughts drift back to your youth. Did you play 'Old Maids'? The game of matching characters and the person stuck with the lone Old Maid is the game's loser?

If you played long enough, you were able to identify the Old Maid card, avoid it, and never lose. You could identify it because of the markings, crinkles, whatever, on the card intentionally administered by your sly friends (but never you).

The Achilles heel of the strategy was that you constantly had to find new 'blood': folks who didn't know the secret of the marked Hag.
Otherwise, you're playing on a level field again. No fun!

To prolong your own enjoyment of faux superiority, you were always trolling for new 'useful idiots.' A steady stream of the the naive kept you in business!

Well, we're all in the Old Maid game for adults, except we vote the distribution of winnings. First, the 'haves' are plundered by the elites (strictly on behalf of the 'have-nots', mind you). Then we 'democratically' split the bounty.

Now the 'haves' get a little sensitive about this, and over time are less likely to want to play this game. What they don't understand is that no one gives a rat's "A" whether the haves actively participate in the voting process or not. New 'blood' has been found, has been taught the 'rules' and graduates from the indoctrination as certified useful idiots.

There's always a fresh crop of useful idiots eager to earn the approval of their new benevolent masters. It's easier than growing up.
Combine them with a solid slug of folks on the take: politicians, bureaucrats, 'special' interests, new recruits from across the borders, and monthly recipients of money as wards of the State. Consequently, producers and those morally offended can pound sand, SOL.

If you're one of the plundered, you hold the Old Maid by default!

This game goes on seemingly indefinitely, or at least until, as Margaret Thatcher observed in so many words, the loot has all been looted.

The simple "obvious" answer starts with: don't play the galdarn game. Who says you should participate in your own self-immolation? Hand the full kebob back, say 'no thank you', and make them publicly responsible for what they're doing to you. When they have to resort to direct force, shoot 'em (hopefully figuratively). Just sayin'...

Are we having fun yet?