RE: Winning By a Landslide and other politicspeak
October 23, 2020 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2020 at 11:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We do elections like we're cramming for a test. Little to nothing for four years and then, at the eleventh hour, we hope that a single vote cast on a single day can do a great deal towards resolving the previous four years backlog of issues.
I think that might be why we seem to feel that every election is the most important in our lives. It's something we'll do...maybe, 15 times. That puts it in rarified air.
I was thinking about this and last night's debate - the embarrassing retrograde discussion of minimum wages. We have two old men arguing over whether we should go to 15 an hour, but that was a livable wage a decade ago. It just took that long for this to bubble up and through that backlog.
I think that might be why we seem to feel that every election is the most important in our lives. It's something we'll do...maybe, 15 times. That puts it in rarified air.
I was thinking about this and last night's debate - the embarrassing retrograde discussion of minimum wages. We have two old men arguing over whether we should go to 15 an hour, but that was a livable wage a decade ago. It just took that long for this to bubble up and through that backlog.
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