Winning By a Landslide and other politicspeak

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.  They were both younger (right or wrong), and the 15/hr figure was accurate..a decade ago.

Imma go with human nature - the problem seems twofold: half of you don’t vote and the half that does don’t  vote often enough.

Government rarely has a sea change. Most alterations in governments are incremental. If  the overwhelming majority of you are not voting in every possible election (not just every two years), of course things aren’t going to change.

Boru