11-17-2012, 10:05 AM
Changes happen subtly in this system, small things that add up. And then they're announced dramatically. Unless you can get a first-hand position, you have to settle for the theatrical tv appearances. The most complicated thing to understand about politics is how simply decisions are made concerning complex, unthinkable details. A person decides to vote for another person that is a member of a party that popularly take certain stands on certain popular issues that somehow go hand in hand. Obviously a candidate can't get on stage and explain things in depth. The third party candidates make a showing of this, but barely, and it's of little consequence for the majority of voters. A candidate simply has to endorse himself, and his cookie-cutter platform. Because ultimately, those simple things are all that matter in relation to his power and office. It's individual people that have to look at where their money's going, where their energy and work is going, where their attention is going. I believe that many people are frustrated and confused, and many of those people work hard, and get tired. But relative to the work that has to be done to start making real differences, they're lazy. People would have to work out in the street, with other people, to clean things up, to show that they know how things are and they're willing to put present manpower behind making things better everyday. But that's crazy talk. Standing in any house in America, you can spend all day counting all the material shit that nobody would waste their money and energy on if they really seriously considered how little they do to change the problems they bitch about. It's fashionable to be a citizen discontented with the government. But it's fanatical to expect them to put forth one finger to actually do anything about it. There are experts in place that do great jobs. So as long as things are relatively safe for most people on a day to day basis, the necessary conditions for radical solutions simply are up in the air. That's what I believe. You'd have to be crazy to actively take me seriously.