Why Debating Politics is Hard

[P3nT4gR4m]

Personally, I aint swallowing any of it 

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Personally, I aint swallowing any of it 

In the end, you are. Unless the laws these idiots make don't apply to you, and their foreign policy doesn't affect the world you live in, and their economic decisions don't impact your life. So, um, if you're obscenely rich?

[P3nT4gR4m]

I can't vote my way out of earthquakes and tidal waves and malaria and being run over by a bus. Just like picking a colour doesn't stop a bunch of monkeys from causing wars and inventing all sorts of stupid laws.

[navkat]

Medicine is supposed to make you get better.

I used to be an office manager. Frequently, part of a project I'd delegated to someone would arrive on my desk or in my inbox, looking like total shit. Shit would be sent back to the shitter with instructions for improvement, notes, etc.

Shitter would go away. End-of-day, unless I held shitter's hand and stood over the shitter asking for updates (which I hate to do. People should be able to do their jobs without me being an oppressive cunt), shitter would invariably place the pile back into my inbox with their "improvements."

At least once a week, I'd get the same pile of shit, except the first few pages/rows/columns/whatever would look fantastically accurate and the filename changed to reflect the new version. The rest would be the same utter garbage that needed to be re-done, by me, to fit in with the rest of the report. What's even more infuriating is that these "projects" often amounted to not much more than a two-page series of fucking lists. How do you get a fucking list wrong?

That's the feeling I get when I think about stuff like how the already-bullshit healthcare reform bill is going to be struck down on the grounds that someone forgot to add a standard blurb about it being subject to the laws of the land to the bottom. Only the shit they hand us often gets filed into the new Activity Report without a goddamned soul actually looking at the big picture for congruency and errors.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

I've been away from the board for a while.  I'm glad I came here today and read this thread.  I've been getting caught up in the game, lately.  It's very easy to do when you live in a county that just voted 3-1 to constitutionally ban gay marriage and civil unions.

Now there's a lot of emotion nationwide around a polarizing issue, and I noticed that Obama and Romney were both quick to take opposing sides on it today.  Taking clear sides on this issue has already energized each party's base, and they will be able to use this issue to distract everyone from the fact that they differ on nothing else.  That's pretty clever.  You can say what you want to about Ron Paul's supporters, and you'll be right, but I did notice that some of them caught that today.

[inode_buddha]

If you think politics is hard, try religion. I suspect its for the same reasons no less. If you can find a way to harness those reasons within humanity, you could accomplish amazing things.

But I'm not holding my breath.
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[Doktor Howl]

If you think politics is hard, try religion.

I fail to see any practical difference.