There's this old and mostly obsolete by now computer game called Oregon Trail, where you are the leader of a covered wagon and you have to fight the weather, sickness, starvation and all that to get everyone across from the East Coast to the West Coast. My little brother loves to do it wrong - he will be careless with the lives of the others, shoot a rifle like crazy to cause terrible accidents and wind up with everyone but himself dead. So I told him that I wished that you had to run for the office of wagon leader. He'd have to promise to do it right.
"So I could just break all those promises."
"You'd have to keep at least SOME of your promises-" I protested.
"Why?" he said. "That would be the mark of a bad politician."
My older brother said, "He has a point."
It reminded me of something I said to a friend of mine on Facebook the other day. We were debating Scott Brown vs. Martha Coakley, and he said, "The difference between a government and a corporation is that a government has more shareholders."
I told him, "No. The difference between a government and a corporation is that you can boycott a corporation."
"So I could just break all those promises."
"You'd have to keep at least SOME of your promises-" I protested.
"Why?" he said. "That would be the mark of a bad politician."
My older brother said, "He has a point."
It reminded me of something I said to a friend of mine on Facebook the other day. We were debating Scott Brown vs. Martha Coakley, and he said, "The difference between a government and a corporation is that a government has more shareholders."
I told him, "No. The difference between a government and a corporation is that you can boycott a corporation."
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