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When I rant about the awful direction our country is headed, it is sometimes met with the rebuttal, "It could be worse". Of course it can be worse. It could be your final living day in agony from some awful disease with no available pain medication, and then that could become worse by having someone stab you in the eye while setting you on fire as a rabid badger attacks your ankle at the same instant that you receive a text message from your girlfriend whom informs you that she used to be a dude, as your home team fumbles the ball in the final seconds of the game thus ensuring a loss. We have all had days like this.

Even if all of this was coming down on you, it could still be worse if you also had the tune "99 Luft Balloons" by Nena stuck in your head. That happened to me once, and it lasted the better worser part of a very long day. The point is that it can always be worse so that does not cut it as a valid reason to dismiss a concern.

America is still a great nation, but it has taken a turn in the wrong direction, and it's becoming a different country. I don't want to live in a different country. I believe that most of my fellow Americans agree because a second favorite rebuttal is "At least we don't live in [insert suckeon country of choice here]". Exactly! We don't have to relocate to end up there. We only have to close our eyes, and it will come here to us.

The wrong turn happened with the introduction of the income tax while failing to also limit the fiscal voting power to the taxpayers. This decoupled our leaders from the US voters because this enabled large scale vote buying as a legal practice. As long as the selective promised rewards are available, the recipients will elect the people that cancel the votes of your representatives. If they don't elect their representatives, they will lose their taxpayer funded lifestyles, hence, the consistent voting trends in government dependent districts. The purchasing reps are then free to do whatever else they want as long as they deliver the promised rewards to their purchased supporters. It's like having pet voters. That is how it works, or more accurately how our democracy has failed.

Speaking of worse, there's a good chance that you are the sucker that is providing the funding for the pet voters whom are cancelling your voting power. How's that for irony? For an encore, you can start paying the gym membership dues for the guy trying to steal your gal. In his case, he (and possibly your soon-to-be-ex girlfriend) will appreciate it. This differs from the government dependents who are not inclined to be grateful as it is known that you will be severely punished if you do not pay your taxes to support them. For extra fun, they are empowered to vote such as to claim an even larger share of your earnings in order to grow their population and strengthen their voting influence. Don't get upset though because you could also have cactus needles impaling your hemoroids after just using a tube of deep heating muscle liniment that you mistook for jock itch treatment cream (I always store these in separate locations now).

The Godzilla that I am facing is that I don't have a freakin' clue about how to correct this. I am not a powerful political activist. I am an attempted humorist that wishes to share some laughs, while not allowing unintended things swirl down the toilet. I believe that I have painted a big, neon bullseye on the root causes, but my markmanship skills kind of suck so the bullseye is laughing at me. It is clear for reasons discussed above (and here), that we are doomed to lose the voting game courtesy of our own tax dollars. So what do we do? My guess is that it will require a class action lawsuit to fix the 16th Amendment since the voting mechanism is broken. How does one initiate a class action lawsuit? I expect that this involves profuse exposure to lawyer life forms (shudder), which don't generally mix well with attempted humorists. Is there someone out there that can help get this going?

To those that still say that things could be worse, I say that things could be better. Hmmmm, I guess I could have just used that statement and saved all of this rambling. On the upside, no trees were harmed since my blogs do not appear in print so it could be worse.

Be nice.

P.S. Don't forget to spread the word about The Robot Protest.