In the
Township of Washington the largest group of registered voters are
‘Un-affiliated’. The result of their registration choice is that these voters
have little influence with regard to who runs for office. The major reason
stated is they don’t like politics. But they will tell you that high on their
complaint list is the amount of taxes they share as their burden.
Nationally
the statistic of the number of unaffiliated voters has shown major increase but
the true determination is difficult. The reason is blamed on disaffection with
parties and ideas. However the disaffection provide little influence upon
political ideals other than follow the crowd.
There are
two meanings to the words related to politics, politicians. The denotation in
the Webster Dictionary is about the development and practice of establishing
government and governing. The Connotation today is that politics has become the
ability and practice expressing what is being done by government and what
should be done regarding government while new ideas are voiced to be correct
regardless of the principles of our Constitution’s government. New laws are continuingly
brainstormed and regulations are being formulated mostly along the belief of
parties’ and their speakers. Our Constitution was developed by astute
politicians. It became a law that controlled the size of government and
provided freedoms while regulations were put in place that the citizenry had
the ability to resist the desires of politicians when counter to the founding
principles. Many unaffiliated voters
will wonder if we truly need another law or that there should be a law.
Along the
lines of the connotation has become the hidden government of the News Media and
their opinionated voices. Today with the advent of Cable TV the flow of monies
by advertisers who are urgent to have their products and services before the
eyes and ears of consumers has created a class of talking heads who seem to
care less about the original purposes of our Constitution. All of the prattle
convinces voters that they hate politics but the same voters consume the
connoted political speech of the Talking Heads.