People are always ragging on me because I’ve decided not to vote anymore. “Oh, the horror”, they say. “have you lost your mind?”

The truth is, beside the fact I have lost my mind on occasion, there is nothing necessarily wrong with my political senses. There has been a method to this so-called madness, developed over time and now clearly rational.

Take, for example, the pronouncement by Republicans after they won a majority in the House their only goal from this point forward was to screw matters up so badly as to ensure the president’s defeat in 2012. This should have given folks some idea of what was in store over the next two years. And if they were listening, they could have anticipated what ultimately occurred — nothing of any great import.

Here was a country struggling to regain its economic footing after ten years of enduring one of the greatest spending sprees in the history of modern man, eight years of which was under the helm of one of the worst commanders-in-chief in the history of modern man. This leader, by the way, was of the same ilk as the ones telling us not to expect anything from our government except a version of ultra partisanship not seen before in the history of this nation.

So while Rome was burning our elected Neros on both sides of the aisle fiddled, nibbling around the edges of our predicament without nary a care in the world for us. We fumed with our tea parties and 99%’s and got nothing in return except golden platitudes from the president and Mitt Romney. My lord, are we idiots or what?

Now we have a Congressman equating immigrants to his beloved hunting dogs and a preacher, or should I say creature, exhorting his congregation to invest in barbed wire electrified fences so that we can hold gays separate from the rest of society.

I haven’t voted since the 2008 presidential primaries. Until that point I was extremely connected to politics. In fact, I even ran for local office in 1996. Now, I sit back patiently and wait for someone elected by others to actually get something done. How about a federal budget. That would be nice since the country hasn’t had one since 2009. How about withdrawing all of our troops from Afghanistan, today, not in 2014. How about the two parties sitting down and hammering out a compromise on anything with the specter of a veto or a filibuster. Until, the U.S. Senate promises to function with simple majority rule, as the framers of the constitution intended; until our elected officials begin to work on their constituents’ needs, instead of spending most of their time raising money for their next election run; until the people with money start to keep their hands off my government; and until something is actually accomplished to help us all have the opportunity to have more prosperous lives, I’m not voting for anybody.

I’m tired of being pandered to by people who are not particular astute as they troll for support. I’m tired of being told what I supposedly want to hear instead of what I need to know. I’m tired of hearing how things ought to be instead of how things really are. And I’m especially tired of an electorate, which wants to go to Heaven but doesn’t want to die.

Maybe it’s time to be beamed aboard the mothership since it’s becoming almost embarrassing to watch this Circus Maximus unfold daily via the cable news networks. So before you rag me about not voting, look in the mirror or anywhere, for that matter, and logically come to grips with why you do.