Politicians of all stripes (we know who wear stripes, don't we?) love crises, the bigger the better, because they shine a public spotlight on polticos and make them feel special, important, needed...like weathermen love bad weather, newsmen love tragedies, police officers love civil unrest, sportscasters love a good on-field fight, and, yes, like bloggers love 'em all.
Now there is one upside to focusing on the down side: Before anything can be done about the down side, before it can be fixed, if it can be fixed, it has to be known. Problem is, most of those I hear focusing on the down side, never get to the upside...and the reason for that is that the upside turns off the spotlight.
So, the news we hear most of is bad news and the world can seem like a bad place to be. And that will likely remain the case until more and more of the public let it be known, one way or the other, that the good in life has its own brighter spotlight.
It does, doesn't it?
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