Being negative on the negative of the political system

It's the time of year where the country if focused on the 2006 elections that are taking place.

The democratic system of government has proven itself to be the most excellent way of governing peoples and nations since the beginning of mankind.

As with anything, however, there are positives and negatives.

The negative, if you will permit me, is the constant negative campaigning that takes place on a regular basis now.

I hear grown men and women point fingers like children on a playground. "It was him," "no, it was you!" "Did not." "Did so." "He did it." "No, she did it."

I know that you know, or I think that you know, that if you look at anyone's life, and I mean anyone's life you can find flaws and inconsistencies.

Every politician pretends to take the high road.

And yet, where does the fault actually lie?

Would these men and women keep on acting like spoiled children if we didn't pay attention to it?

Maybe we should all take the elections off. Boycott them all and let each politician wrestle the other politician in a pit of mud.

That way, they would go beyond the metaphor of "mudslinging," and actually duke it out in the mud itself.

Just a thought.