One of the problems with politics is their thinking can be short term and revolves around elections. There are very short term benefits, which will lead to long term consequences that might only start to affect people after those who allowed things like this to happen are gone. Too often for short term personal gain, when with some actions there is no way for them to be reversed. Discovering what we shouldn't have done when it's too late is a bad plan. It's like we're children just twisting something just so we can see how long it takes to make it snap. Then when it snaps, it happens where we didn't expect. I must remember however that criticism is only really valuable if it points toward a...

One of the problems with politics is their thinking can be short term and revolves around elections. There are very short term benefits, which will lead to long term consequences that might only start to affect people after those who allowed things like this to happen are gone. Too often for short term personal gain, when with some actions there is no way for them to be reversed. Discovering what we shouldn't have done when it's too late is a bad plan. It's like we're children just twisting something just so we can see how long it takes to make it snap. Then when it snaps, it happens where we didn't expect. I must remember however that criticism is only really valuable if it points toward another method or the solution to the problem. The advantage we have now is that there are more people thinking about problems, so the scope of solution has become a social collective. The reason this is essential is the way one person may not ever find a solution, but much smaller problems can be investigated or dealt with, by many people and smaller groups and the findings can be part of a collaboration that can be put into context, with input from any number of perspectives