Posted on 09/16/2025 4:13:55 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
🏛️ Why Politicians Don’t Want to Solve Problems
Here’s a theory I’ve been thinking about — and the more I look at the world, the more it seems to hold up:
Politicians don’t actually want to solve problems.
Because there’s more money, power, and influence to be gained in keeping those problems alive — especially in times of chaos and fear.
Let me explain.
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💰 Crisis Means Cash
Every time a major problem surfaces — whether it’s war, climate change, crime, or public health — billions of dollars get thrown at it. Committees are formed. Programs are launched. Studies are commissioned.
It looks like action, but too often it's just theater.
Behind the scenes, that money flows into the hands of consultants, contractors, nonprofits, and corporations with political connections. In many cases, these programs never actually fix anything.
Why would they? If the problem goes away, so does the funding.
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😨 Fear Justifies Control
Fear is one of the most effective tools in a politician’s toolbox. When people are afraid, they’re more willing to:
• Accept surveillance or censorship “for their safety”
• Support emergency powers “for the public good”
• Vote for politicians who promise to “fix it”
Once those powers are in place, they rarely go away — even after the crisis has passed.
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🗳️ The Perks of Perpetual Problems
If you solve a problem, you lose a campaign talking point.
But if you keep a problem just bad enough, you can keep saying:
“We’re working on it — just give us more time, more power, and more money.”
It’s a great way to get re-elected without ever delivering results.
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🧾 Follow the Money
Most government programs are complicated — by design. That complexity makes it easy to hide waste, corruption, and “skimming off the top.”
The bigger the problem, the more layers of bureaucracy. The more layers, the more opportunities to quietly redirect funds to friends, donors, or pet causes.
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😇 Is Every Politician Corrupt?
No, not all of them. There are honest public servants out there. But the system itself is built in a way that often rewards dysfunction more than results. Even well-meaning politicians can get caught in the machine.
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🤔 Final Thought
This isn’t about left vs. right. It’s about how power thrives in chaos — and how solving problems can be bad for business in the political world.
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You are just now figuring this out?
You have succinctly explained the CON.
I’ll take “What is gender affirming care for $400, Alex.”
Yup.
You miss some key points. Politicians are less to blame for chronic problems than those who benefit from those problems persisting. In addition, solutions to many chronic problems are not apparent or involve cost benefit equations that put solutions out of reach. Finally, the root of many chronic problems is the persistence of human ignorance, perversity, and folly.
This is not a new thing, nor is it a purely American thing.
Here in Canaduh, Pierre Trudeau, when Justice Minister, in 1966 or 1967, proposed to give each and every ‘Indian’, as they were then called, $25,000 to become Canadian citizens and get rid of ‘Indian status’. Reserves would have been divide up and each family given title to their house and land and each ‘Indian’ provided free education for life. All of this, to integrate ‘Indians’ into Canadian society. One of the few things Trudeau Sr. suggested, that actually made sense. Of course now, said indigenous people are known as ‘Natives’ or ‘First Nations’ in Canaduh.
Many Natives and regular Canadians thought it was a wonderful idea. Then members of the ‘Indian grievance industry’, the politicians, lawyers, activists, socialists and civil servants, who made a living through the gubmint paid for ‘industry’, realized that the gravy train was ending, and soon branded it as ‘racist’. The plan soon was quashed.
Today, the ‘Native grievance industry’ in Canaduh, is bigger than ever, reaching perhaps a hundred billion dollars, a real scam. One need only look to the many reserves where the Chief lives in a mansion, taking winter vacays to foreign hot spots, while the average Joe, lives in squalor, sometimes without even running water.
One notes that "entire industries built on imaginary sh!t" is often called "the entertainment industry."
For me, this means far, far more than Hollywood, since all that social media influencer stuff and so many "channels" and two-bit talking heads ( subscribe-donate ) and especially the so-called journalism of today -- expert in everything as long as "experts say" and "science says" and "speaking on condition of anonymity" and the like -- these all are a bunch of industries built on imaginary sh!t/.
Skepticism is all is warranted.
As long as they can sell the sizzle to voters and then eat the steak themselves, what incentive do they have to actually solve any problem?
You are just now figuring this out?
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No, I am just now publishing an essay on the subject. I am sure many have already figured it out, but it does not hurt to restate something, even when it is obvious to some, it is not obvious to all.
I’ll cite one example here in Illinois- perpetual road work. They purposely build roads that will fail so they can come back and rebuild them in a few years. It keeps the unions busy and helps ensure their votes.
Imagine the job loss and revenue loss if automakers made quality cars.
Yup. NOTHING made to last anymore.
NextRush:
See how the individual FReeper CIB uses his original thoughts to intelligently compose a coherent article centered on a single subject, with appropriate formatting and a logical flow?
YOU SHOULD TRY IT SOMETIME!!!
Indeed democrat politicians solving problems is a pay reduction
The main function of government is to get the folks dependent on government so they will always clamor for more government.
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