The plastic steering wheel: how they run ruin our country

When I was a kid, my dad took me out in the family car where I sat on the front passenger seat (without a seat belt, booster or anything) while he ran errands. That was before the nanny state took over. For some odd reason he rarely made phone calls to talk to people; he drove and visited with them. Gas was cheap back then.

I liked to use my plastic steering wheel, with a dashboard suction cup, so I could pretend that I was steering. Once in a while, I’d turn the wheel at the exactly the same moment as my father turned a corner. I was thrilled. “I was driving the family car.”

It’s the same today. Our congressmen and women are turning their plastic steering wheels back and forth, left and right, allegedly changing the country’s direction. If truth be known, it has little or no impact on what actually happens.

Once in a while they turn the wheel at exactly the right time, and then spend days talking about how clever they are. Most of the time, they lie about turning the wheel at all.

These people speak in ambiguities, using a technique known as plausible deniability. That is not just the CIA way of doing business, it’s one that our politicians know and love as well.