Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Taco's Political Career
MaximumTacolord has begun looking into politics as a possible career. Politics is weird, like, most people don’t know much about the process. Sure, there are elections and red tape. Otherwise, what the hell goes on? This may be a reason for the popularity of conspiracies. So much of the political system is a mystery. How is something so inefficient and corruptible able to mobilize a million troops with advanced weaponry? There has to be some dark cult of old men plotting and manipulating the world, right?
I think it’s something else, middle management. Most politicians are just policy makers. They tell the gardener to plant rose bushes and eventually roses appear and the politician takes all the credit. If tulips appear, then the politician either takes some heat or he or she just says tulips are better anyway. The politician never actually gets their hands dirty.
In regards to the government, most politicians are just hiring other people to do the job for them and aren’t able to provide much oversight, largely because the oversight is done by other people hired to make sure people are doing their jobs. What happens when the new middle management does something crazy or is trying to hide what they’ve done from the politician, a conspiracy! Now the politician is confused and can’t do much else besides lie and thus a string of lies and cover-ups begins. Besides making policy, their words are pretty much their only power. That, billions of dollars, a network of powerful corporations and old money, and a vast council of advisers and lobbyists.
With this in mind, I don’t think Taco is going to like high ranking politics, too many middlemen and lies. But something small and local, something he can get his hands dirty with, that might be more his style.
Labels: conspiracies, government, politics, taco, tacolord
