Battle of the posters

For decades, American leaders have been tramping all over the world and touting their democracy, even on occasion, waging wars on others they say are not walking down the same path!

However, in recent times, the hypocrisy and madness that passes for democracy in that country has been exposed for all to see.

A sea of posters of unknown people at Tamarac Library

For, indeed, the emperor has no clothes.

While the Donald Trump fiasco has played out for the world to see and the sickening polarization which stops all progress at the federal level dominates, even at the important local level, what is passing for politics is somewhat discombobulating.

But it seems that is what the voters want.

But in my book, if your city is not properly run, your entire existence can be difficult if not impossible.

It is in Tamarac where I currently reside where I have seen a kind of bureaucratic madness at the local level that would make all other administrations throughout the world appear to be super-efficient.

This involved the department that is in charge of building permits.

In this instance, a condo association was given a run around for seven months, to get the approval to repair a small 2x4 opening in a condo.

Yup, SEVEN MONTHS!

That’s probably the time it would take to get approval to build an entire complex or a duplex in an efficient municipality!

It’s this kind of madness at the local level why people need to be conscious and vigilant about who they elect to run the affairs of their city.

I don’t know if Tamarac City has a staff shortage in the building permit department, but it certainly couldn’t be because they have a shortage of funds to hire adequate staff. For they charge so much for a permit and you need one to do the simplest thing on the very inside of your condo.

I can see why this happens though, as clearly those who are running for office in this municipality do not take their jobs seriously. Most don’t even bother to try and meet their constituents and find out what their concerns are.😡

All they all seem to do is to depend on posters to convince people to vote for them! 

I am new to this city and for the upcoming election, only one candidate bothered to visit to tell my household about himself and answer questions. Two others sent around informational material, but look at the hordes of posters of persons unknown, asking constituents to vote for them!

I guess it works for them though, for most people seem to vote according to party, not for candidate they know from information gathered, will do the best job.

So, when they fail to perform, we the voters can only put the blame on the posters, not ourselves.

No wonder we get such underperformance at the city level.