The game?

Has government become more about “the game,” than about the results/outcome?  Meaning, have we thrown out the baby with the bathwater, in the name of “winning” (getting our way)? 

There used to be a kind of civility, reason, valuing the objective truth in debate, even a willingness to compromise.  Legislators would make their case and see if it flies with the electorate.  If so, the lawmakers would agree to create a law to enforce what the electorate wants. 

Now, truth and results doesn’t seem to matter, other than our beloved subjective truths.  It’s like the focus has turned to “control over the other,” whatever it takes.  Goal: Winning for winning’s sake. 

There is some strange “automatic instinct” to say the opposite of what the “other side” wants.  You say yes, I say no.  You say no, I say yes.  Contrarianism for contrarianism’s sake.  Are there not issues that all humans should agree upon?  Climate change is a good one.  We need a healthy planet to sustain ourselves.  Or, another example are gun laws.  People, by a huge majority, want better gun laws.  Still, we can’t get them.  Why?  Big money.  Lobbyists.  Profits.  “Freedom.” 

Okay, I’m just venting today.

Comment if you have something you’d like to say about all this.  Otherwise, ignore me.

(by PrimalSoup)