Saturday, July 14, 2007

government

Our government I find to be very interesting, although I don't think that's the correct way to say it. It claims be an ideal government and that all others should be like, however (and this is the interesting part of it) it is very similar if not just like all others. At time of elections, candidates promise numerous thing knowing that they will probably not be fulfilled and they do this for the sole purpose of winning votes. Then when in office, they are questioned by the people, why have they been deceived, when promises are unfulfilled, and the presidents always give a thoroughly thought out answer that might include lies to make us believe that we are getting a true and good answer, but their answer is most of the time to dodge the real answer. Just like Bush, the answer that he gave regarding the question of the iraqi war was very thought out because he would pause before saying a word to say things in a cryptic way to dodge having to say a straight answer because if he would do that then more people would be against him, and as a president what he needs and wants is more people to support him. I find that very sad because instead of giving people an informing answer, he feels that he has to weave around and lie with his answer just so that he and every president can gain or at least not lose support. However I don't think that none of us will ever do something because in order to do something against the government we need a large enough group that can be noticed, therefore it is more convinient not to do anything and as betty said, we are satisfied, and I believe that the only time someone has a response against the government is when they have a personal issue to address. Everything else we just brush it off of our shoulders and pretend it is not happening.

2 comments:

Emily said...

I agree, it's unfortunate that straight answers are non-existent in politics. But the sad thing is, the reason it's this way is because of how the people vote. If a politician gave a straight answer, they would be penalized by the people when they should be getting praise.

Melody said...

I was just reading 1984 - it's creepy how much the last part of your post - where you describe our complacency with how things are - sounds exactly like the section in the book where Winston thinks about the proles:

"It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty grievances"(74).