Ok, so last night before the fun fires I was hanging out somewhere that had the California gov debates on TV. For those who don’t know me: I don’t like confrontations, I don’t like politics and I don’t feel that whoever is voted in to a seat of power “really” has the power to do what they claim they can (or take the blame for everything that goes wrong when they’re in that seat). The whole experience made me feel physically sick to my stomach.
First off, the canidates still do the whole personal attack thing. It’s never “I have had more experience in X due to A B and C, therefore I think my opinion on Y is valid” .. it always comes down to “you guys don’t know anything about Y”. This just reduces my opinions of the canidates to almost nothing. Along with this is the desire for most of these people to take credit for everything that they feel is “right” and then refuse to acknowledge that anyone else accomplished anything helpful.
Second item that annoyed me is the general “blame” factor. Did the last Gov really cause 100% of the problems he’s blamed for? Did the others running for office cause other problems with what they’ve been doing in their local governments before running for this position? Was it really THEIR fault or are they just the figurehead who gets to take credit for the wins and losses while other people really work and try the different options… and in reality, even if they are.. who says you can’t learn from your mistakes? If someone is at least TRYING things (with some level of research behind it) then they should be honored for that.
The other most annoying part of this is that everyone likes to come in with a budget, an agenda, a full plan that’s “theirs”.. what about either hiring outside agencies to handle some of this planning, or even proposing a budget without running for office, etc? Who says you 1) need to be in a position of “power” to actually change things or 2) that once in that position of power “you” have to be the person behind the ideas (or your “immediate staff”)…
So anyway, I walked out of the room on numerous occasions trying not to be ill. I once heard the saying that “the only people who are worthy of the position also are smart enough not to want it” .. and I agree.
That’s a big reason why I haven’t voted in the last two elections
I’m just trying to take a lesser of many evils approach now… *shrug*
September 26th, 2003, at 12:29 am #I couldn’t agree more.
Unfortunately here voting is compulsory if you’re a citizen and I truely believe if you force people to vote you’ll get less of a true reflection on what “the people” actually want because the vast majority have “donkey” voted to get it out of the way without incurring a fine.
Politicans remind me so much of the muppets - someone’s hand is shoved way up there and is making their mouths move.
September 26th, 2003, at 3:18 am #Hmph, I thought I posted earlier on here when I read it that I was going to gank it and put it on my site. Oh well
Regardless, it’s on the site now 
Muhahhaha! Thanks for the classic quote 
September 26th, 2003, at 10:41 pm #