The Game of Politics
I’ve never really paid too much attention to politics. I’ve always found it boring and irrelevant to my life. It seems to always come down to arguing about who is right and who is wrong on questions that have no right answer. Since there is no right answer, people tend to pick a side arbitrarily and stick with it. This essentially forms two teams in a big glorified game, the outcome of which is capable of affecting the lives of everyone in the country and sometimes more.
It’s not really a bad thing in and of itself, since voters want two choices. So having two main groups to pay attention to makes it more likely that voters can make an informed decision. So the way the process works for electing government officials seems to work alright.
The problem lies in the way laws are created. It seems that the people in congress are disconnected with reality, so all they have is the game. Their goal is to keep their team in the lead by any means necessary. This is usually a good thing because it means they’re making the decisions that they think most people want, which is their job as a representative of the public.
It’s when the game has nothing to do with what is good for the public, that the game is a bad thing. Like when they add in some extra, unrelated crap to a bill just to sneak it into law.
Anyway, the real point I’m trying to make is that politics are a little silly.