{"id":1902,"date":"2022-06-08T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2022-06-12T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T19:37:17","slug":"politicians-who-try-to-do-something-is-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/2022\/06\/08\/politicians-who-try-to-do-something-is-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians who try to &#8220;do something&#8221; is dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don\u2019t know about y\u2019all but for me as a taxpayer, when we have roads that need fixing, kids who need to be kept safe, &amp; parks that need maintenance\u2026I pretty much want somebody to \u201cdo something!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XUQObDqQJC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XUQObDqQJC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Debbie Helsley for Knox County Mayor (@DebbieForMayor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DebbieForMayor\/status\/1533060367341047809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We blasted a Tennessee wannabe politician because it sounds like she doesn&#8217;t get it. It&#8217;s probably not her fault. Most politicians have been classically trained to be useless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All too often, they enact complicated policies that benefit themselves and their cronies while making life harder for everyone else. This self-serving behavior is one of the biggest reasons why so many people have lost faith in the political process. When politicians focus on enriching themselves instead of doing what&#8217;s best for the people they&#8217;re supposed to represent, it&#8217;s no wonder that cynicism and mistrust are common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If our elected officials would start acting with common sense and serving the public good instead of their own selfish interests, perhaps we could begin to rebuild some of that lost trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So instead of resume building &#8220;doing something&#8221; policies, let&#8217;s just see a little common sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-1000x242.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-1000x242.png 1000w, https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-768x186.png 768w, https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image.png 1175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We blasted a Tennessee wannabe politician because it sounds like she doesn&#8217;t get it. It&#8217;s probably not her fault. Most politicians have been classically trained to be useless. All too often, they enact complicated policies that benefit themselves and their cronies while making life harder for everyone else. This self-serving behavior is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[10,9,199],"tags":[869,39],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics","category-tennessee","tag-do-something","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/tweet.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}