This exactly why I am going to make it a point this year to talk less about politics and more about Main Street. The years of debating over which man is on first base have reached a new level of nausea for me. I was reminded of this yesterday as I debated someone in the media (or at least has one foot in the media) on Facebook over this recent shooting in Arizona. He spent the whole discussion making the point that A) the shooter was politically motivated (Never mind the fact that the best motive investigators have found was that this guy was CRAZY), and B) Sarah Palin and the gang are at fault. During the discussion, he finally acknowledged that both sides of the political spectrum have dished out questionable rhetoric from time to time. But unfortunately the only examples he could think of were on the Right of the spectrum. My point was simple: leave politics out of it altogether and stop using the situation to get another TV invite. I was playing in front of his fan base, so ultimately it really did not matter what I said.
Just as the title of this post states, the industry of politics cares nothing but for itself. It simply looks for opportunities. If you break it all the way down, politics is nothing more that survival of the fittest. When you look at it that way, there is no way anyone can take a call for “civility” seriously.
What really troubles me is the lives of the people in the story below routinely mean absolutely nothing in the political world.
CHICAGO (WBBM) – WBBM Newsradio 780 has learned that the cooler at the Cook County morgue is so crowded right now, bodies are doubled-up on some of the trays.
Why are there so many bodies in the morgue’s cooler right now?
“We had this huge upswing in deaths right at the end of the year, and with the holidays being on Saturdays, it really created a backlog because the funeral directors weren’t coming in,”…
Jones adds that more bodies could not go out because coffins were on back order.
But Jones says the coffins are now in, and a mass county burial is scheduled for next week.”
To the political world, they served their purpose (using them for the poster child of liberalism, conservative meanness and avoidance, unfulfilled political promises, etc.). You won’t see political hay being made of stories like this because in the end, they simply do not matter.
So why would I spend so much of my time fighting in an arena when just down the street folks are dying off like this? Chris Matthews, Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, Tea Party, MoveOn.org have nothing to do with the sad fate of so many of my people ending up in a morgue.
Politics does not “care”
by Duane on January 12th, 2011 at 9:57 amThis exactly why I am going to make it a point this year to talk less about politics and more about Main Street. The years of debating over which man is on first base have reached a new level of nausea for me. I was reminded of this yesterday as I debated someone in the media (or at least has one foot in the media) on Facebook over this recent shooting in Arizona. He spent the whole discussion making the point that A) the shooter was politically motivated (Never mind the fact that the best motive investigators have found was that this guy was CRAZY), and B) Sarah Palin and the gang are at fault. During the discussion, he finally acknowledged that both sides of the political spectrum have dished out questionable rhetoric from time to time. But unfortunately the only examples he could think of were on the Right of the spectrum. My point was simple: leave politics out of it altogether and stop using the situation to get another TV invite. I was playing in front of his fan base, so ultimately it really did not matter what I said.
Just as the title of this post states, the industry of politics cares nothing but for itself. It simply looks for opportunities. If you break it all the way down, politics is nothing more that survival of the fittest. When you look at it that way, there is no way anyone can take a call for “civility” seriously.
What really troubles me is the lives of the people in the story below routinely mean absolutely nothing in the political world.
To the political world, they served their purpose (using them for the poster child of liberalism, conservative meanness and avoidance, unfulfilled political promises, etc.). You won’t see political hay being made of stories like this because in the end, they simply do not matter.
So why would I spend so much of my time fighting in an arena when just down the street folks are dying off like this? Chris Matthews, Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, Tea Party, MoveOn.org have nothing to do with the sad fate of so many of my people ending up in a morgue.