People get fired up over politics. That is a behavior as old as the hills and I accept it. I laugh at it, however, and the reason why is because it seems to me people are getting fired up over nails and saws, drills and augers, hammers and plungers. Allow me to explain:
What I really think politically is that one size does not fit all. One party platform is not the answer to every problem. I don't think you can apply one political approach to every issue and come away successful every time. Different problems take different solutions and no one has a monopoly on those solutions. Sometimes one group has got it. Sometimes another group. Sometimes neither one.
If I put my support behind one size fits all every time then I am limiting myself and I am limiting my success. I understand why political parties form and I understand why there are different political ideologies, but to fight like cats and dogs over these things to the exclusion of getting things done is unfortunate.
Personal solutions aren't by nature politically oriented things. Neither is personal life. I don't walk around the grocery store thinking I need to shop libertarian. I don't put on my clothes like a conservative. I don't play with my children like a socialist. I don't live politics, because most of the time I don't need them to tackle the normal every day problems of my life.
I see politics as something useful to tackle things too large for personal solutions. Politics is an artificial construct created to organize like minded people into managing problems too large for any one person. That's good. It's a good tool for that. In any job, however, if the tool isn't working you use another one and that is how politics should be approached.
If you ask me to pick a political side simply to label me on a political side I'll tell you you are using the tool of politics the wrong way. On the other hand if you tell me there is a problem and this side has this solution I will tell you I either agree or I don't. I try to get behind good solutions to problems I care about, not over arching political ideologies. That may make me seem politically wishy washy and as far as supporting one ideology or the other, I am. I'm not focused on the party however. I am focused on the best way to get a lot of people to get together to solve big problems. That's what politics is for.
Well that and taking over the world, but that's another problem. Next week: when politics tries to take over the world and 7 sugar free recipes for Fall family fun! Plus I'll knit a sweater! In the closet. Sugar free.
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