Manic Monday: Having a hard time caring lately . . .

Political commentator Erick Erickson's latest book is, "You Will Be Made To Care," which is about the rise of the militant left and how you will be "made to care" about their "agenda".

I get his point, but right now, I am having a very hard time caring or being made to care.

Governor Nathan Deal has a religious freedom bill on his desk.  No matter whether he signs it or vetoes it, someone's going to be mad at him.  And right now, I can't really care one way or the other whether he signs it or not.

The presidential race, at the moment, will probably come down to either a brokered Republican convention and/or Trump vs. Clinton, with Clinton a probable winner.  I can't care about that, either.

It could be because I'm just weighted down with the cares and concerns of everyday life.  But I just don't have the mental or emotional energy to go through the pros and cons of every.single.argument. that is out there about why I should support/oppose certain issues, why I should vote for/vote against a particular candidate, why I should contribute to a candidate's war chest, etc.

Maybe this is by design; that the media think that if they overload us with too much information, we won't care, we will become apathetic, and we'll end up voting for the candidate they want (which I believe is Hillary Clinton.)  Or we'll end up not voting at all.

Sorry, Erick, but right now, I'm having a rough time caring.

Just my .04, adjusted for inflation.

Flipping the switch . . .

I was going to write this morning about the angry voter.  I think it says something about the state of politics in our country that the two Republicans leading in Iowa at the moment are Donald Trump and Ben Carson.  Trump and Carson are not career politicians.  People are angry and they are fed up with "politics as usual".

But this morning, there was a switch that flipped in my brain that said, "No more."

I sometimes get to the point where my brain is just full.  It gets tired of certain things, certain subjects, and nothing else can go in.

There's five months before the kickoff of the 2016 Presidential Election season--the Iowa caucuses--and the saturation level will be reached long before then.  I'm already seeing ads for Chris Christie here in the Atlanta area.

Daily, I hear and see the news reports and opinion pieces on the candidates, why I should/shouldn't vote for (fill in the blank), what a piece of garbage Candidate X is, why I should vote for Candidate X because he/she is the only hope for our country, etc. etc.

Frankly, my head is dizzy and right now, I've got to delete some brain files before I can let any more in.

So, for today, the political circus will have to go on without me.

Just my .04, adjusted for inflation.