Einstein was a scientist, but his comment is applicable to politics.
Our Nation faces serious problems. Who created those problems? In 1984, Charley Reese of the Orlando Sentinel wrote:
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen,
one president, and nine Supreme Court justices – 545 human beings out of 238
million [300+ million today] – are directly, legally, morally and individually
responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545
people exercise complete power over the federal government, then it must follow
that what exists is what they want to exist.”
We elect 536 of those individuals: 100 Senators, 435 members
of the House of Representatives and the President. What are those individuals most
concerned about? Their greatest imperative
is winning their next election. How does
that affect their thinking and subsequent behaviors? To win they must perform the political calculus to
determine which course of action will pacify the greatest number of voters in
their respective constituencies. The result is the governing
process is sacrificed on the altar of politics and political expedience. That is the thinking they used when they created the problems. We must rely on the same 536 individuals to find solutions to the very problems they created in the first place. Has the imperative need to win their next elections changed? No. Will those individuals change their thinking, and their subsequent behaviors, to find solutions to our Nation’s problems? No.
Will the Nation’s problems be solved? NO!
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
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