Politic Games

 The many new television "games" series are no longer about spelling and guessing words. They're about lives and lifestyles, but principly about money that most of us don't have enough of.  Our political figures seem to be using we, the public, as their game pieces, for winning a seat.  In my area, many of us in the vast middle of society, the ones who quietly pay taxes and help  families and live peaceably and with hopes for a better future and do not attend big professional rallies or protests, find it harder and harder to vote. It seems that like bathwater, politics sploshes up and down and clings to one side or the other of life's tub when it's all done. There appears to be no calm middle water on which to sail one's life. And a regular citzen's vote once meant something. There are awash, politicians who want only to win and in doing so try to seek out the side that will get them there. Period. Politicians who do get IN, make good money and benefits and perhaps appear to work "hard" at orations, dictating letters and rubbing luncheon shoulders with the right people who will do things. Political life is by terminology, people handling. They are those who get into power that we ordinary humans have no time or talent for, and hopefully they do it for us. We hope they do it for us. Of late, I have no one to vote for because the two rather extreme opposites are having too much fun jousting  or joining up with the other side. Who is in the middle? The middle man is pretty much what most of we, the public are. We like things to run smoothly and efficiently and give us the truth and information that we need. It's all that we elected them to do for us. We trust whom we vote for. Plain and simple. This time around, I have no one to vote for to express my citizen responsibility in the franchise. What happened to the middle?