I’m glad the painting spoke to you. I don’t know that our political system is any more screwed up than anyone else’s, but it certainly is longer than most.

It’s sad to see anyone subjected to the kind of stress and scrutiny that a US presidential candidate goes through. No one who was honest and forthright could possibly make it through. Unfortunately, our process pretty much guarantees that only the wealthy and corrupt have a shot at it. And who would want the job anyway. Only a meglomaniac with an ulterior motive. In my opinion, anyone who wants the job should be banned from having it.

Of course, it does come down to us in the end doesn’t it. If we were more interested in how we were being represented than watching the campaign as if it were a sporting event, maybe things would be different. It always comes back to Pogo “we’ve seen the enemy and he is us”

Kudos to you for this great piece here. Loved the words and the symbols of the painting.
We’re all fed up- with every side, every media head, every falsification, dung flinging, truth twisting, senseless burning of billions and lives beyond count.
It’s hard to keep hopeful but we’re weeds, aren’t we? We pop back up.

I see the same patterns here on St. Croix- US Territories, and the same kind of pocket lining politics. We see it even more succinctly here since we’re so small.

Thank you for utilizing your brush and voice to vent and share it with your readers.

Silvina, thanks for your encouragement. I don’t know about most governments but it’s better than some. I think the metaphor could probably apply outside the US as well.

Thanks Frank. I’m enjoying the posts your doing on your palette experiments.