Shityammering
I got in a while ago, turned on the TV, and there’s some politician telling me that “we need to put politics aside” and just “get results.”
I’d say that any politician who would actually say something like that in public ought to have his license revoked.
It is through the medium of “politics” that participants in representative government actually get those “results.” In countries where the medium of government is sectarian slaughter and kidnapping and terrorism, the results don’t come too easily or pretty.
Politicians ought to spend more time not being goddamned liars and self-interested moneygrubbers. They ought to have enough respect for the electorate to say “Yeah, I’m a politician —and I’m going to argue and reason with other people just like me as to why this thing or that should go down this way or the other.”
What this moron on my TV probably meant to say is that he disapproves of partisanship as an end in itself. Yeah, okay. Because if we’re just going to vote en bloc as partisans and not give any consideration to what’s right or what our consciences tell us, then there’s really no particular reason why any one politician’s position should mean anything. They can just go ahead and sign over their potential as leaders of men to some smaller group of such result-getting morons and have done with it.
