As a casual observer I’ve noticed that too much of what must be done and what is right and wrong gets lost in the politics and legislation of issues. My opinion is further fueled by articles like this piece on the Secret Service. The article talks about the short history of unforgivable gaffs from the secret service leading up to a dude running into the White House with a knife on him. The writer attributes the failure to a political move of the agency from the Department of Treasury to the Homeland Security Office. There is some truth in that. Prior to the move you didn’t see such lax Presidential security as was evident during the Bush and Obama administrations. Nobody managed to throw a pair of shoes (one at a time, mind you) at Clinton or Bush #1.
This seems like a small thing but is indicative of the role politics plays in mucking up the works of every day life and especially of what needs to be done. Politics even effects the healthcare system. Thanks to laws devised several decades ago, non-invasive medical tools like the the Lung Flute cannot even be sold in the U.S. without a prescription from a doctor. Yep, you need a prescription to blow into a piece of plastic that delivers no medicine whatsoever.
That’s politics, folks. We need to move past that and start to focus on doing what is needed and what is right.