“I got a lotta problems with you people, and now you’re going to hear about it!”

— Frank Costanza, during the Festivus “Airing of Grievances” in a 1997 episode of “Seinfeld”

Every now and then, my travels on the interwebs lead me to that legendary clip of Jerry Stiller’s Frank Costanza standing at the dinner table and shouting that line with George, Jerry, Kramer, George’s mother Estelle and George’s boss, Mr. Kruger, watching.

Almost three decades later, it’s still must-see TV. There is no skipping it for me — just like stumbling across an episode of “Law & Order,” even if I’ve already watched it so many times that I can tell you the plot after 10 seconds of dialogue.

So, on to the grievances:

CONSTANT ELECTION CYCLES

Maybe it was always like this, and I never noticed because I spent so many years working in sports. During all those years, my only work-related concerns about election night was getting the sports section out early and what kind of pizza we were getting.

Now, though, it seems we put one election to bed, and the next cycle begins the very next day. Please make it stop.

Also, why is it that so many elected folks win races and instead of focusing on all the promises they made to get elected, they immediately start planning for their next office?

THE INJUSTICE SYSTEM

What’s the difference between judges and bartenders? Accountability.

If a bartender overserves a customer and that guy drives away and kills someone with his car, the bartender could be held liable. If a judge lets a career recidivist walk after dozens of arrests — including some for violent crimes — and the guy commits a murder or a rape, there are no consequences for the person whose decision allowed those new crimes to happen.

We should change that. If we’d done so already, a young woman whose throat was slashed on a train in Charlotte, N.C., would be alive and a woman in Chicago — set on fire on a train — wouldn’t be languishing in a burn unit. The Charlotte murderer had 33 previous arrests and was quickly on the streets after most of them. The same is true for the would-be killer in Chicago, who was walking free after an astounding 72 arrests.

That’s ridiculous and sad.

SOCIALISM IS SEXY?

Maybe I was just a child of the ’70s and ’80s, but I’ll never understand some Americans’ recent fascination with socialism. Polls suggest a majority of college-age young people favor socialism over capitalism. Do they lack an understanding of economics and the ability to read a history book?

Socialism kept turning up in various parts of the world throughout the 20th century and over the last 25 years. It’s never worked anywhere, unless you consider millions and millions of dead bodies a twisted form of “success.”

Spare me the tired bleating about how “democratic socialism” is so much different from what we saw in the USSR, China, Cuba and North Korea and many other lesser-known places where socialism was tried. I’m not buying it.

ANONYMOUS COMPLAINTS

A neatly typed letter arrived in the mail last week. The writer was a reader who apparently “had enough” of a few of our syndicated columnists whose opinions are not in lockstep with his own. It’s not important what his views are for one very critical reason — he wasn’t brave enough to sign the missive. That is not limited to one side of the political spectrum. We receive similar messages from left- and right-leaning readers.

Normally — and this goes for every newsroom in which I’ve had the privilege of working — unsigned complaints are quickly filed away. Can you guess where they go? Some people call it “file 13” or “the circular file,” which are euphemisms for the trash.

Why? Because that’s where they belong. No signature = no credibility. If someone’s cowardice prevents them from signing off on a complaint, most newspaper folks won’t give it a second thought. But I held onto this one for a bit because I thought it might come in handy as a public service.

There is another tortured soul out there who apparently sits at home waiting for a typo or some other type of mistake to make it into print. Let’s be honest — it happens because we’re human beings and we’re not perfect. As a former boss told me, “The next perfect paper printed anywhere will be the first.” There are always things we can do better.

This particular reader has sent in (anonymously, of course) a handful of items clipped from our pages that contained an error. In the margin, he or she always scrawls “award-winning community journalism,” as a sarcastic reference to verbiage that appears on our front page. It’s true, our folks consistently are recognized by their peers in the industry for the work they do, just as it is true that we are human.

When we make a mistake, we own it. If you don’t like an opinion piece or an editorial cartoon, I can usually explain why we published it. A reader once called to say she was appalled by a cartoon about Charlie Kirk’s murder. It turned out that she interpreted it as a slam against him, when the exact opposite was true.

But she didn’t lash out anonymously. She left her name and number so I was able to call her and resolve her concerns. Good things can happen when people talk. More of us should try it.

Ed Puskas is editor of the Tribune Chronicle and The Vindicator. Reach him at epuskas@tribtoday.com or at 330-841-1786.