If we could only just run the country from this forum..
By xfahctor
@xfahctor (14118)
Lancaster, New Hampshire
September 2, 2009 1:36pm CST
A comment I made in another discussion made me think a little, a fancifull thing really, nothing that could of course execute in the real world and life, so it was more of a metaphorical thought.
The comment I made ended with the following words, "Hell, we could run the country from in here couldn't we?". The comment was made with the reguard to a seemingly slightly saner conversation on health care in here than in previous weeks and that some, even some sharp rivals in here seem to be agreeing on a lot of aspects to it and ideas, the problems that need adressing and even what the best way to adress them are.
Yet we turn on the tv and we still see the news networks in hard core partican war, propaganda being spewed...politicians ponificating, bullshittting, dazzling, baffling and lecturing....lobby and national interest groups screaming at each other and all other manner of otherwise childish and disgusting behavior from the VERY PEOPLE we are looking to in solving this problem.
We had a rocky start, a lot of fists flying and such in here for a time, but we pretty quickly got down to some serious discusions and threads and are probably further along in a plan and getting along better than the people we have stupidly been looking to all this time, the politicians.
Too bad we couldn't "run the country from in here". Why is it we...."people", can do this in here, but the moment you get a government title and a stupid little letter "r" or "d" next to your name, you become like them out there? Many a world problem has been solved on a bar stool, around a camp fire, a game of dominoes and even a discussion forum thread. Why do we not expect and demand this same level of performance, discsussion and common sense of the people we hire to deal with these problems for us?
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
2 Sep 09
Great discussion, X! I've said this for as I can remember about government officials and pretty much every boss (and all of THEIR bosses) I've ever had - when they get their position of power and authority the first requirement is to have their common sense surgically removed. That makes it much easier for the special interest groups, lobbyists or anyone else who may have influence over them to convince them to do stupid, nonsensical things.
Common sense can't be learned or acquired; either someone has it or they don't! Most of us have at least some common sense and that common sense tells us that sometimes we need to compromise. Sometimes we can't have 150% of what we want yesterday. Sometimes we even have to give a little ground to our "enemies" which just MIGHT mean that one day they'll give a little to us.
Annie
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
2 Sep 09
I think you know the answer. It's not about R and D at all. It's about politicians. They don't care about us and they don't care about the constitution. 99.9% of them care about ONE thing, power. They want to stay in power and get more power. Sure, you can try to do that by being honest, caring about the people, do what's "right", but that's rookie talk. You get and stay in power by rewarding those who fund your campaigns. Even Howard Dean has admitted that Democrats won't go for tort reform because they don't have the balls to piss off trial lawyers and he's head of the DNC.
The people on this forum want either what's best for them, or what's best for the country to come out of this health care bill. The politicians don't give a crap about health care, only what a health care bill can do for their career.
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