Redwolf's Journal (continued)

A few random thoughts bouncing around my head... How the heck do you get politicians who focus on the job of governing? I get that the founding fathers of the USA laid a lot of governmental groundwork with the specific mindset of breaking up absolute power to avoid an effective monarchy. I'm not sure if it's really gotten worse over the decades or it's just perception (probably some of both), but it's not inaccurate to say these days most congressfolk and even first-term presidents spend more time working on image and messaging toward re-election than on actual governance. Why does this come up? Well, I watched a few minutes this morning of the hearings congresspersons called Mueller in for. Theoretically, he's there to answer questions about his investigation. While I only heard a short bit from two representatives, I can leave specifics out and still say it was apparent from the rambling statements and not giving him questions to actually answer that the slice ...

I don't particularly like talking politics, it's too inflammatory, but sometimes you have to say something... I don't know if writing/rambling some of this will help me get it out of my head or not. I'd really like to reduce the amount of headspace taken up by politics currently. I felt overdosed on it for the 2016 election cycle perhaps a year ago. It's just been so much, and everywhere. Yesterday, I felt a bit shell-shocked by the election. Now I'm moving on to acceptance. I'm only a little surprised, honestly - and only that because just about every poll source was off. Polls aside, though, it was at least 12 years ago that it became clear to me the USA is very polarized about some things, particularly presidents. And it was back in high school (when our student council president won after giving a speech that entirely consisted of referencing a Nintendo commercial of the time, as his name was Mario) that I decided politics was largely a popularity ga...