Polls and Our Pitiful Politics

A good friend, Rube Cage (deceased) had an avid interest in anything political but when the polls would come out during candidating, he would respond to each with the same four words: "They never asked me."

I understood. Rube was well aware that we don't really know who took the poll and we know even less about the people who were polled. We just know we weren't a part of the process, which bugs us.

A major goal of most polls is to influence the outcome of a political race, with the results favoring the poller's choice.

How pitiful! How stupid do the pollsters think we are? Pretty stupid, we'd say. And they're right. Just look at the incompetents we elected in 2024 and at the incompetents they've hired.

Thus, we vote with the crowd, more often than not. And we're not ashamed to do so; for we want the people around us to like us and think most of us are on the same political wave link most of the time

There's little wonder why we end up with incompetent politicians. They're the stupid fools among all of us stupid fools who were stupid enough to run for a stupid political office.

How pitiful indeed!