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As part of our bathroom remodel we purchased small, flat screen TV. Believe it or not this is my requirement not D’s; I like to watch the news while I’m getting ready in the mornings. Our plan is to mount it on the wall next to the right hand sink, but we are loath to spend the $100 on the bracket so D is busily devising a plan. This is the kind of project he excels at and I’m happy to let him handle it. Currently the TV is in the bedroom, a previously TV-less space, and I’ve been taking advantage of its presence there. Last night I turned it on and flipped channels a bit before going to bed and stalled on the community channel which was airing a city counsel meeting. Normally I’d breeze right past but they were discussing a proposed parking ban which I’m rather against and I stopped to watch. In fact, I watched for nearly two hours.
There is a great deal of not so interesting commentary I could include here about the proposed ban, but it wouldn’t matter as it did not pass. Besides, though I was interested in the outcome, it was the interaction between the committee members that kept me watching. They were petty, childish, and insulting toward each other. It wasn’t so much democratic process as it was a battle of wills. Only two members stood out to me as having a modicum of sense; the first was an older woman who spoke with wisdom and calmness that failed to rub off on the others, and the second a younger man who had to cajones to say ‘too much government is a bad thing’. Every other member issued some veiled slam against the prudish woman who proposed the law change; including a suggestion that she would be participating in Halloween as a witch.
I suppose it was naïve of me to have thought that people in these positions act with decorum and grace or at the very least were polite even while being firm in their opinions. But, I am not so naïve that I believe it is any different in any other branch of government all the way up to the white house. It’s no wonder we seem to get no where when it’s clear that the folks who are supposed to be representing the people are in fact representing themselves with their own emotions and their own defensive behaviors. Imagine the world we’d have if government would just ‘grow up’.