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Somebody asked me why I don’t like any of the presidential candidates. Beside the multifarious unsuitabilities, naked insufficiencies, blaring inadequacies, I’ve harped on over the last entirely too long to bear this sort of thing, there is the matter of our planet. Our good and faithful dying planet.

Peppered with incogitant criminals who call themselves “leaders” though it is, it is our only home.

There is a vast whirlpool of plastics choking off the sea life in the Pacific. The polar bears are drowning. These two facts alone are enough to nix everyone running, everyone who was running. Which of them has been hollering for the free market to do something about either of those problems? Or for the world to pitch in to build freezers for the arctic and send battalions of barges out to haul out that immense floating island? What world leaders or candidates for world leadership are addressing this stuff? Every decent scientist on the planet has come out and said we are in a planetary emergency and which of them is giving it a tenth of the attention it so obviously requires? Name me one!

Dennis Kucinich might have said a thing or two trending in that direction, and we might even have heard it if he’d been serious about becoming president, but I don’t think so. And trending toward it doesn’t cut it. It’s flat out not good enough to choose between the people who have decided to run for office. We have to be out finding real candidates and clearing the decks of the criminals, who are too busy running heroin and nukes through Turkey to do anything other than create planetary crises, so as to make it safe for real candidates.

But no, no one ever went broke underestimating the apathy of the electorate. Your brain is going directly to the old saw about how never getting a choice better than the lesser of two evils has made the public apathetic. Shoot your brain. Use your head.

The waiter says you can pick between the rancid chicken and the rotten vegetable soup. Which are you going to pick? Neither? How are you going to eat then? "I'm going to go out and find me some fresh nutritious unpoisonous clean food, even if I have to grow it myself."

That’s how you get the right presidents too.

Don’t sit back and take potshots at potential candidates. We’re going to starve to death if you don’t stop that. The matter at hand requires that real statesmanship of a nature positive for the whole planet come to power. It’s as easy as taking candy from a baby to sit back and dis the people who might or do run for office, but another matter entirely to help insure there is really someone to vote for, or to help insure the bad candidates are made into good ones.

I heard someone stumping for a parallel government the other day. That sounds like a potentially brilliant idea. Anyone feel like talking about it? About how good an idea it could really be? The pros and cons?

UPDATE: "I mean, it felt like he was urinating on my face!"