Opine This

Political pundits really irk the heck out of me these days. I'm old enough to remember media coverage of politics from decades ago, and those who offered their opinions, from both sides, never appeared so self-absorbed. This isn't about you. Public policy, today, has turned into just that - a contest of whose thoughts and ideas are better. I win! That's all anyone cares about. Not what is in the best interest of The People they are supposed to serve. And those offering their opinions on the issues of those serving are only interested in offering the best, most interesting opinion!

When did society become so narcissistic? 1000 years ago? 500 years ago? 100 years ago? Clearly society is cyclical, and we are going through a period where all anyone seems to care about is "me, me, me," but if people don't realize that attitude has been the destruction of many civilizations past, it will be the destruction of ours.

People, look outside of yourself more for answers about everything, including politics.

Take for example the fact that these aforementioned political pundits will opine that one Republican candidate may not be right because of "x," when all along the Democrat who has the job for the last x number of years, or terms, has virtually bankrupted a state, or even country. Clearly I am no genius, but if the person who has had the job and is doing a terrible job, doesn't it make sense to pick ANYONE ELSE? ANYONE WILLING TO TAKE THE JOB?

If you own a company and you find out that your General Manager has been stealing from you, would you hire a NEW General Manager, or would you just keep the same General Manager, full well knowing he's going to keep stealing from you? What if you knew all along he was stealing, and you continually discussed his stealing problem with him, but out of kindness allowed him to keep his job hoping one day he would stop stealing? Only to find out he kept stealing while lying to you about it the whole time? Would you let him keep stealing from you, or finally hire someone new? ANYONE?

Is this some really difficult puzzle? Or do people intentionally make things more difficult than they have to be?