Game Show Host Throws Hat-in-the-Ring

Politics as we know it is Complaint and complaint is old-fashioned, a kind of national malaise for which we’re just free enough to take two Tylenol as the government shutdown looms.

We the People, among the people mentioned in our Constitution, are now officially beyond being tired; we’re exhausted. The Democrats have done so very little for the us, while the Republicans have done even less but have somehow made it seem even more--such a curious calculation. In the meantime, we’ve been invited to the big auditorium where the Nazi’s love to get together to discuss war strategy.

It's moments like these where not to believe in something is to believe in almost anything--the Supreme Court, P Diddy, the tooth-fairy flown in on the President’s presidential plane Air Force One, your grandmother’s paisley shawl.

It’s true, the game-show announcer announces, you’ve won a new home from Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes, with sweeping views and panoramic vistas featuring wood-burning fireplaces, an island kitchen, and master and mistress bedrooms with vaulted ceilings!

Tolstoy always seemed to admire common people, peasants like we are, and wrote about us, letting us know that we are living in a troubled time or, as the writer Marilynne Robinson stated it recently, “an occupied country.”

 I might as well throw my hat in the ring to announce I’m coming out of Preretirement to grant powerlessness to the People.