The Good, The Bad, The Politician

           Politics. It's everywhere. Newspapers, television, radio channels, we just can't get away from it, and, try as we might, we just can't avoid politically charged conversations. In Jessica Templeton's post, Obnoxious Proposals are Totally in this Season, she talks about the inevitable drama surrounding politics today and the greasy politicians who are behind it. There are some points made in Templeton's post in which I agree completely, but there are others where I find myself disagreeing with her views.

          She starts off by stating her own opinions about politicians, what they stand for, and the hot topics that seems to drive the population into absolute insanity. She states, “It's like politicians believe that any publicity is good publicity, but is that true? Yes, it's good for the voters to know your name, but I personally wouldn't want my name known for something that creates a major fuss among the public.” Now, I agree that not all publicity is good publicity, in fact, about 70% of it IS bad publicity, but her viewpoint on not wanting her name publicized for something that creates public drama seems irrelevant. As a politician, their background, views, and plans for the community are publicized for all to know and they get criticized for every bit of it. No matter what stance a politician takes on any issue there will always be part of the population who support the same views, and the other part will always be against it, and there doesn't seem anyway that a politician can keep his name a secret or avoid the drama the follows. A perfect example of this is shown in the exact same post as she stated, “... since I was so irritated, I did some digging. I uncovered the fact that this [abortion] bill has the support of certain candidates running for president and to me that's absolutely frightening.” From my point of view, this shows exactly how impossible it is for a politician to hide their own views from being publicized to the general public.
           In all, Jessica puts up a great argument, despite the slight contradiction, and I fully agree with her stance as she amazingly puts it, “Seriously, politicians, you guys, or gals, need to stop being so obnoxiously ridiculous or get out of office. There's already enough screwed up people in this world that we don't need them running this country.”