How
do you keep politicians honest?
Finger
Politics
A
bit tongue in cheek, a bit real world problem solving if you ask me, but I’m a
flawed human with a wacko imagination and a demented sense of humor. Read on
to enjoy a comedic post with one goal in mind: clean up the dishonesty in
politics.
Inspired by looming
midterms, constant ads, abundant flyers, intentional misinformation, I’ve
developed the concept of Finger Politics.
It’s a bit outside of the box and a tad
twisted, but it could be a highly effective way to streamline the monstrosities
that have become political propaganda.
In Finger Politics, each
candidate…at every level…in any capacity…pledges to stand behind and back TEN
issues/policies. Every time they actively go against anything they pledged to
do, they get a finger cut off. For example, I pledge to fight to increase
funding into public education, but then I vote against it. I do anything to intentionally
stand in the way of getting funding into public education, and I lose a finger.
(This is not to say I lose a finger if others vote against it and the bill to increase
funding doesn’t pass.) It’s about what I said I would do and what I actually
did. It’s about our elected officials meaning what they say and saying what
they mean, thereby making it easy for the public to stay informed, without the
twists and spins of smear campaigns, talking heads, biased news and intentional
misinformation. Bye bye, ‘I’m going
vote with my buddies’. Bye bye, ‘I’m in
the lobbyists’ pocket’. Bye bye, ‘self-interest
bullshit’.
FP may seem harsh, but it will
make it crystal clear who has integrity and who doesn’t. Honesty becomes transparent.
Accountability is in place. Keeps politics a touch fairer for the common folk…those
of us that are supposed to be represented. True colors shine through. The guess
work. The smear campaigns. The rhetoric. All gone. No need to recycle all those
flyers, because there’s no need to make them. In fact, ads will be scaled back
to just a picture of the candidates’ face and hands, with fingers held high for
all to see. At the bottom all the pertinent information:
Dale,
7 fingers, 15 years of service
Paula,
3 fingers, 8 years of service
Stephanie,
9 fingers, 20 years of service
On the back of their
face/finger card every candidate would have one side to explain the finger loss(es)
and tout any accomplishments, like how they kept their current fingers. One
card. That’s it. Think of all the money saved and the waste not wasted!
Another bonus? No need for
term limits, once you’re out of fingers, you’re out. After all its Finger Politics.
Not Nub Politics. Want to keep your fingers? Don’t be a corrupt asshole liar.
The simplicity of it. It could be a thing.
Finger Politics, Coming Soon?!?
***Endorsed by Americans Everywhere
