According to the historians, Winston Churchill said, "I would rather be right than be re-elected." Fast forward about seventy years. The American political landscape is shaped by the opposite approach. When I write my fiction, I get to vent. The following excerpt, from the short story Night Sweats with Arnold (to be released in October in a compilation of short stories called Death of an Atheist: And Other Short Stories), is some of the steam coming out:
"The news is driving me crazy. To control and direct the making and administration of public policy, that is to govern. So why can’t these egotistical bastards do it. Everything is about an interest, special or not, personal or not, economic or not; it is always about an interest not connected to the public good. One clear interest driving almost every decision, word spoken, gesture made, seems to be the need to be re-elected. God forbid one of these whining stuffed shirts actually made a decision that comports with governing, i.e., one that is in the best interests of the public."
The general lack of leadership in government is disgusting.
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