"Settling Politics" amounts to everyone agreeing about what to do on every matter all the time. Otherwise politics just isn't going to be settled. But it's a m

"Settling Politics" amounts to everyone agreeing about what to do on every matter all the time. Otherwise politics just isn't going to be settled. But it's a misconception to think that the goal of politics is to "be settled". The goal of politics is to make decisions on how to rule the land right now, they don't get to wait 15 years and then try again (yes, some do, but that's a different problem). there is a secret debate about who is going to have to wear the costs. It's very sad that this has become a "secret" debate, because this is the heart of politics. I haven't decided if I blame politicians or the sensationalist media more for this, but these debates should not be secret. This is not just a problem in the US, in Europe I see the same: we are stuck with career politicians that are too chicken to either state their real beliefs in public, or to act on those beliefs in the senate.