It does make you wonder about people in general.... [View all]

[NRaleighLiberal]

This morning on my way to the Farmers Market I tuned on Weekend Update on NPR, and Scott Simon was talking to three media members reporting from the middle east and discussing Syria, Egypt and Tunisia. They were talking about how the election in Egypt looks to be ending up as a run off between the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, and someone who is more aligned with the former Mubarak regime. And the comment was "this is not something that is likely to represent the will of the people"

I thought about that a bit and compared it to the elections in this country, especially when compared with the plight of most people. So many people voting against their best interests and ensuring that someone that they elect governs counter to their true needs.

I suspect that the answers to each of the situations - Egypt and the US - are quite different (for the US, so much of it is one issue or misinformed or uninformed voters being brainwashed by endless ads or the stuff they hear from the pulpit in church). But....doesn't it make you kind of shake your head in wonder and ponder whether people are just hard-wired to put themselves into the muck - rather than take every opportunity afforded to make things better for themselves?

In so many ways, human beings are so deeply flawed! Greed, jealousy, deceit, laziness - and I suspect it has always been this way.

Makes me also realize that those of us who do try, strive for more, seek progress and improvement are in many ways just banging our heads against a wall, in a world being held back by the big glut of people who don't or can't really care.

That's it for my Saturday rant......feeling better now! Back to dig in the garden.