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Yes, it is life-consuming. Anyone who wants to get into politics is getting into something that'll affect a lot of people's lives. It should take a lot of eff
by Frondo 11y ago
Yes, it is life-consuming. Anyone who wants to get into politics is getting into something that'll affect a lot of people's lives. It should take a lot of effort. If it were easy, our world (or the part of it that government touches, which is most of it) would be chaotic.
As for "anyone who would want the job shouldn't have it," that's cute to some, but to me it's a tired thought-terminating cliche. It says "it's ok to be cynical, hur hur, and complain without doing anything about it," but does that get us any further?
- JoshTriplett 11y agoI'm well aware that I'm complaining about something that I'm unwilling to take the time to fix. Given all the time in the world, it's one of the problems on the list; it's just not at the top. I don't, however, think it ought to take a life-consuming effort to make it stop affecting a lot of people's lives. But unfortunately, it probably will. Not least of which because there are a large number of people who feel entitled to make it affect a lot more of people's lives. In any case, though, I'm surprised that you say "I don't get why more people don't do this!"; I think it's fairly obvious why more people don't do this. If it were the kind of thing you could spend a few hours doing as a volunteer effort and have an impact, rather than the kind of thing you could spend your life on and possibly accomplish nothing, then more people might do it. On the other hand, if it were that way, then there wouldn't be as much of a problem to deal with in the first place.