Do I Have Your Attention?

Politicians attempt to blindside people by trying to convince them they are continually aiming to better the world based on what they want, and that people have a say in what happens in their society. They then play on the basic of human activities on that people will have opposing views, and then try and convince them that they hold the key argument in the debate. Before people have had time to think there are suddenly five or six different points to an argument all demanding that they have the right to be heard… and that they are right.

Assuming there are only five sides to an argument, now assume that each side amasses a large base of people that are fighting other large bases of people to the point where people start to forget the argument in the first place and become concerned only with the amount of people they can convince to come to their side. Perhaps this is what politics is all about, maybe even governments are formed around the ideal that a large amount of people can become accumulated to the side of an argument. Unfortunately the argument, the original issue in the first place, is now irrelevant and only comes back in to play when a side has enough attention and power to say their point of view is right. Which of course not everyone else can ever agree with.

Now imagine hundreds, if not thousands of arguments, with an unlimited number of disputes, sides, and disagreements. Complete disarray outweighs the importance on whatever the argument was. People stop been concerned as to what is the right side of argument that they get caught up in what will help the most people side with them, what will grab the most attention. Combine this confusion, this multitude of sides to unlimited arguments, and you have a government.

They rule, perhaps well, and sometimes not so well. An argument will always have at least two sides, or it is a decision. That is why it is rarely heard about a government’s decision. Stop picking sides, stop choosing a party that just happens to have the most convincing arguments for what you believe in and just believe in a system that may fix any one of the thousands of issues in this world. Now… do I have your attention?

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