Interrogation

Have you been interrogated?

I bet you have.

First Date. Job interview. Coming home late. Bad grades. Caught behind enemy lines. Press conference.

Interrogation is questioning · cross-questioning · cross-examination · quizzing · probing · inquisition · catechism · investigation · interviewing · interview · debriefing · pumping · grilling · the third degree · examination.

So why isn’t a politician put under this vetting?

A politician just prints up some highlights and some nice photos of family with pets (no goldfish) then hits the fund raising circuit to tell whoever is seated whatever they want to hear.

The day of reckoning comes and we blindly choose what the propaganda advertising persuaded us to believe. Then the one with the best tale gets the most numbers and moves into office for many years, representation our wishes, hopes and dreams (or not) and we pay them.

Only after they have settled in do we start complaining. Maybe we should be interrogated?

Should the ‘right to vote’ just mean that you were born here?

But then the talking heads wouldn’t have anything to talk about.