Political Correctness

Political Correctness was Originally Posted on October 23, 2010 by lavarock

Political correctness is a term used to explain the idea of not saying or doing something controversal. However, I also consider many things politicians do as controversal.

Imagine being able to vote yourself a pay raise.

Imagine being able to vote to take money from citizens and give it to others. Imagine that some of those people will now vote you back into office because of it.

Here’s yet another in my series called “Who Cares?”

Levi Johnson plans to run for Mayor of his town, but he is unsure whether to run as a Republican or Democrat. By now, most people in America know general differences between the parties. While some politicians may differ from party lines, come on Levy, this seems like just another publicity stunt. Wait until your opponent tells the press that you posed for Playgirl. Oh wait, we already knew that!

Here in Hawaii, it is common to see people on street corners waving signs for politicians; sometimes their oppononents on the opposite corner. According to the Wall Street Journal “Daniel Inouye has represented Hawaii in the U.S. Senate since 1963. But every six years, he stands by the side of a road with a campaign sign as motorists drive by.”

Speaking of sign shaking, there is a hamburger place here that advertises by having (probably homeless) people stand at a busy street corner and shake a sign to attract customers. The sign has the name of the business, and the words “local beef” and “beer”. The sign shaker gets an hourly wage and a meal.

Visitors to the islands often don’t notice until someone points it out, but we don’t have billboards here. In fact, there is a general lackof advertising signs and thank-goodness, no airplane toting streamer-type signs. It was decided long ago that certain types of signs were a blight and one statewide group called the Outdoor Circle has taken it as a project, to fight these signs.

I have had neighbors try to convince me to vote for specific candidates, without even asking me what party I may be associated with. While I don’t always vote party lines, I do agree with many of the ideas of a particular party. It is interesting to note that some of these people continue to complain about how bad things are (tax wise) in our state, yet continue to vote for the same people who have continued to raise their taxes and create the problems complained about for the past 6 decades…

That brings to mind a sign I saw in “Rosie’s” cubicle back at HP a number of years ago. It read:

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!”

Computer people kinda know that. Computers should always do the same thing when told to perform a specific task.

Sometimes I think politicians are like computers. No matter what they say, they do the same thing every time.

Someone once told me that the main job of a politican is to get re-elected. Oftentimes it appears to be true.