Sometimes it’s duck season. Other times it’s rabbit season. Recently, we have begun the first of two periods of “promise season.” This season pops up twice a year around March and April, then later in September and October.
This is the time of the year when it’s legal for candidates to go out and try to bag voters. There are no limits and few rules as to how these poor defenseless voters can be hunted and captured.
Successful “vote hunters” use an unlimited arsenal of tricks, lies, misinformation and “promises” to “bag” their prey. Most of the year they are invisible. Rarely seen by their prey. Only coming out every two or four years that coincide with election cycles, these relentless hunters begin with TV, radio and newspaper ads seeking to lull the hunted into a false sense of security and giving them the sense that their dreams and wishes will be granted, in return for their vote.
Vote hunters know their prey is quite easily fooled and are only concerned whether hunters are Ds or Rs. These hunters know most will do as they’re told by the ads mentioned above.
Recent promises floated out (again) are: allowing independents to enter the game, reducing taxes (ha-ha), cutting wasteful spending (lol), reducing violent crime and drug addiction, ending homelessness etc.
But not to worry, this season, like all the previous ones, will be over quickly and then things will go back to normal where nothing will change.
Tim Kaczmarek
Natrona Heights