Emotion and common sense. We react and decide on emotion, but is that wise?
Common sense is a realistic approach to solving a problem because we see the problem and approach it in a way to find a permanent solution. Trying to solve a problem by emotion will only mask the problem to make it appear realistic when is not a realistic approach to solve it.
For example, politicians will tell you what you want to hear and they use emotion to get votes, and they are masters of illusion in their field. Shooting catastrophes and global warming are their golden nugget. We will see them use these tools, and they are tools they will use time and time again when they run for office by creating fear that triggers emotion and gets your vote.
Although it triggers a good vote count for them to win, it does not correct the problem because they only work on your emotion and not on correcting the problem.
Example? Global warming has been happening for millions of years and is a normal away of sustaining life on this planet, but to say that will not win votes and elections.
This is much like eating a doughnut to make you feel better about yourself. And it works at winning votes and elections but offers no solution.
Another political quick fix on gun violence is to remove all firearms from the nation and that will end gun violence. Looking at it from an emotional point of view it makes sense, but will that stop violence nationwide? Violence will continue to rise with other forms of weapons because we have not addressed the problem. We treat crime as a sickness and release criminals on compassion and have created a revolving door that in turn has created an increase in repeat crime offenders, which in turn created overcrowding in the prison system.
Solution: Politicians will say that to decrease incarceration we must release prisoners early to lower our prison population problem. How did that work out for us?
The solution is a hard pill to swallow: We need to go back to teaching students about respect and hard work, the seriousness of living by rule of law.
Breaking the law is not your right but today some feel it is because it makes them feel good to break the law. The Capitol insurrection is a very good example. People involved were in law enforcement, former military and other professionals. What makes well-educated people do that? Acting on emotion affected their lives today.
Rafael Madrigal
Pharr
Political
profiteers
It is astonishing to see the extent to which people working in government are in it to advance stock portfolio profits. Reporting by Rebecca Ballhaus of The Wall Street Journal recently revealed this.
This country has not only deregulated industry and banking, we have apparently also deregulated ethics, law and common sense.
Congresspersons and federal regulators have been gorging themselves on insider information while we have been gorging ourselves on hot dogs and beer.
I love this. The reason many are giving why we shouldn’t regulate stock trading by members of Congress? This would discourage people from running for office.
What? Discouraging greedy folks from running for public office is exactly why we need to ban stock trading by public officials. We need to elect people who are in it to advance democracy and good public policy, not personal and family bank accounts.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
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