I know I’ve railed about this before and I probably will again. Politics is a cesspool. Each candidate looking into the past of the other to find the most embarrassing piece of information and then exploit it.
In the end, we get to vote for the candidate that smells the least offensive.
In truth, the President can’t control the economy, oil prices or much else. He can, because he has the ear of the nation, use his bully pulpit to encourage government and business leaders to move in a certain direction. He can also market his message to the masses to put pressure on those leaders who don’t seem to get the message.
The President also gets to play with congress. Many of whom seem more interested in power plays than developing a long-term solution to many of our problems. The reach objective, of course, is to make those in power look bad so voters will change from one group of power players to another.
The result, of course, is not a whole lot gets done. The same problems crop up again and again because no one wanted to solve them in the first place.
Maybe we need to encourage our representatives to stop playing in the cesspool and actually come up with logical, well thought out, intelligent long-term solutions that are a free of political influence as possible.
As voters I think we need to take notes during these political speeches and hold those who are finally elected to their promises. In other words, don’t promise something unless you can deliver!
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