This is not a political commentary, but more importantly a humanitarian one.
As you may have heard, Massachusetts' Senator John Kerry has been selected to be the nominee to be our next Secretary of State. Although I can see how he is qualified for the position, it puts Massachusetts in the position of having it's third high profile Senate election in three years.
To be honest this third Senate election is making me somewhat anxious as I realize that most likely this will mean one more barrage of political advertisements with each side doing it's utmost to fill viewers with fear about the prospect of election of the other candidate.
Although I've structured my life so that I don't actually see much commercial TV or listen to commercial radio (thank you Netflix, NPR and internet), I still go to the gym in the evening where there are banks of TV's set up in front of the cardio equipment. I am still a bit anxious and sad at the same time at having to be exposed, even bombarded, at the upcoming collection.
I realize of course that my fellow citizens in electoral battleground states were carpet bombed with political ads of a length of time that rivaled the siege of Leningrad, so I I don't really have the right to complain. Yet present day political ads are so overwhelmingly ubiquitous and so inflammatory that I'm not happy at the prospect of having to go through this again. So if you're involved in one of these new Super-Pacs who took political advertising to a whole new level in the last election, in the name of all that is good and holy, please take a rest in Massachusetts this year.
As you may have heard, Massachusetts' Senator John Kerry has been selected to be the nominee to be our next Secretary of State. Although I can see how he is qualified for the position, it puts Massachusetts in the position of having it's third high profile Senate election in three years.
To be honest this third Senate election is making me somewhat anxious as I realize that most likely this will mean one more barrage of political advertisements with each side doing it's utmost to fill viewers with fear about the prospect of election of the other candidate.
Although I've structured my life so that I don't actually see much commercial TV or listen to commercial radio (thank you Netflix, NPR and internet), I still go to the gym in the evening where there are banks of TV's set up in front of the cardio equipment. I am still a bit anxious and sad at the same time at having to be exposed, even bombarded, at the upcoming collection.
I realize of course that my fellow citizens in electoral battleground states were carpet bombed with political ads of a length of time that rivaled the siege of Leningrad, so I I don't really have the right to complain. Yet present day political ads are so overwhelmingly ubiquitous and so inflammatory that I'm not happy at the prospect of having to go through this again. So if you're involved in one of these new Super-Pacs who took political advertising to a whole new level in the last election, in the name of all that is good and holy, please take a rest in Massachusetts this year.
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