Or I guess I should say, “the circus is on the TV screens.” I hate election years. Just because it exposes the worst in human behavior. People can’t seem to disagree respectfully anymore. Nope – they have to resort to using emotionally manipulative words in a vain attempt to guilt other people into feeling bad for thinking differently than they do. Which, of course, never works – people just get offended and get into a war of insults. Lovely.

Both Republican and Democrats have serious problems with their party lines. Mainly because they sometimes take up positions just because it is the opposite of what the other one has. And then some third party or independent party will come along and take up a stand opposite of the two major parties just to be different.

Here is what I say: I think we should just give each party one term in office and then switch to the other party. One term for Republicans, and then one term for Democrats. Of course, four years is not enough time to get any good done, but eight years is enough times for the stupidity that hides in the shadow of either party to start ruining our country, so maybe we should expand that one term to maybe five or six years. Whoever can win their party’s nomination for the election year that their party is in power gets the presidency for the next term. Of course, we would have to let everyone vote in the primaries that year. But I just say we give both sides a shot every other term and be done with all of the stupid mud slinging.

Oh… wait… Obama and Clinton proved that even intra-party mudslinging can get ugly. Drat – shoots down that theory….