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January 21, 2021
You Go First

Who needs to be the better person first? How long before we start doing the right thing even though the other person isn't? The thing I'm tired of the most in politics is when one party does something that the other party disagrees with, then when roles are reversed, both parties take the opposite view.

Without getting into specifics and just making up something fictional for illustration purposes, let's say a republican congressman wore blackface a long time ago. Democrats would be calling for his head and republicans would be saying it's not a big deal because it was a long time ago and they've changed. Flip the script and a democrat wore blackface or a KKK hood and you get the democrats defending him and the republicans calling for removal.

Inevitably both will be saying "well when their person did it it was okay, so why is it wrong now?" This is because ALL THEY WANT IS POWER. Morals and ethics aren't the top priority for career politicians. They say what they need to say to get elected then do what they need to do to get elected again. The same goes for other members of their party. They'll do and say what they need to say to keep their friends in power too.

I can't remember the last time we had a politician that voted on a policy based on principle and not party. There were a couple of instances when a democrat voted to not impeach Trump the first time around and there were some republicans voting to impeach Trump the second time. Although, you could argue these were strictly for optics as they knew what the end result would be and their consituents wouldn't like it had they voted the other way. So, again, it's about being in power.

So how do we fix this? TERM LIMITS. Like the presidency, limit any congressional position to two terms. This way you won't be getting people in office only concerned about getting and keeping a job. They'll know that political cash cow won't be around that long and, hopefully, we'll have people of real principle filling those seats.

Who am I kidding, knowing humanity, they'll figure out some way to exploit that too. I can hope though. Just like I hope to win the lottery some day. It's a pipe dream.

But for now, be the better man. Do what Michelle said and when they go low you go high. Yeah, it sucks because it seems like you're being weak, but you're not.

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