Are you sick, disgusted, tired and aggravated by the continual humdrum of attack ads that we're seeing. They seem inescapable.

Who do we blame for this pox on our electoral system?

-- The framers of the Constitution, who didn't have the foresight to anticipate things like TV, the seemingly unlimited amounts of money that special interests are willing to spend to get their candidate elected, the political advisors to the candidates who advise the effectiveness of negative or attack advertising?

--The conservatives on the Supreme Court who reversed the Citizens United case from a federal appeals court on a straight vote along ideological lines?

--Or maybe the candidates themselves for approving the attack advertising through their silence?

I don't know who's to blame, maybe all of the above. But it seems that the cat is now out of the bag. The Citizens United decision will forever change political campaigning for the benefit of wealthy special interests and to the detriment of individual voters.

I don't know how much more of this I can take--and here's five more months to go!

One thing is for sure...whichever candidate is elected will be hated, distrusted and openly resisted by a little less than half the people in the country. And we'll expect him to "lead"? Not possible in my opinion.