Wishing is not planning. Just because you want something to work out doesn’t mean it will. Yet it seems that wishful thinking is how most government plans are made. Today, I’m going to look at some recent examples of politicians’ wishful thinking. Maybe seeing how things are being done will encourage us to find better people to represent us.
I’m sure we’ve all wished upon a star at some point in our lives. However, this childish practice shouldn’t be how adults plan their futures. The problem with wishes isn’t so much that they may not come true as that we may keep on wishing long after they have failed.
Take, for example, those who promoted and implemented defunding the police, wishing and hoping that it would lead to a decrease in crime. That hasn’t worked out, yet only a few places have learned their lessons and are restoring the systems of justice. Or those who wished that, even with only the smallest of majorities, the Republicans in the House would restore some semblance of regular order to the government fiscal policies.
Let’s not forget those who wished Republicans could get control of spending and then dropped their snouts into the pork-laden troughs. Probably the saddest of all are those in Uvalde, TX, who wished their law enforcement would be there to protect their children or wished that, in light of their failure, investigations would show they had learned from their mistakes.
The saddest part of establishing your policies by wishes is they rarely come true.
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