Why our elections aren't producing the results we expect ...
The political flyers I get in the mail from politicians is basically just 'intentions recitals' with no mention of a demonstrated or recommended solution supported by evidence
I’ve been watching elections for decades and realized that most of problems I’ve seen still remain while only the ‘names of the politicians’ have changed.
The last several elections both at the federal and state levels have put tens of tens of politician’s placards into my mailbox offering up mainly what we want to hear. This is made easier for politicians by ‘polling’ the public asking what they should be talking about ‘intention’ wise.
The intentions, I can agree, is what we all desire to happen to improve the quality of life for all people but when the results aren’t obtained as promised by campaign promises the unfortunate and dividing ‘name calling’ starts.
The solutions we need will affect all people regardless of their situation and should be structured in a ‘sustainability prosperity’ manner.
Understandably our elections are mostly based on existing folklore, beliefs and ideology. Most voters haven’t the background in management economics to understand if the suggestions coming from these areas are going to work.
While my blog is based on trying to help the public understand the ‘economics drivers’ creating our issues I rarely put forth a blog post that is more or less like the politician’s flyers stating what I see as what’s wrong in our political process to solve persistent issues but not putting forth detailed solutions that are based on what economic management professionals call:
Demonstrated reproducible results from a preponderance of evidence.
But I think it’s worthwhile to take the time to understand the current political environment and suggest why we aren’t getting, again, the results promised.
Some examples here might be instructive. For example, the issues of migration, inflation, and poverty have been around for decades yet nothing in the current political discourse presents what I term as the ‘economic drivers’ creating and perpetuating the examples above.
My Substack blog has many posts on these three topics including:
Why aren't the economic drivers of migration in our political discourse?
Why we need to know the economic drivers of poverty and crime ...
Rarely are these posts read by the people I’ve presented them to on social media outlets Bluesky, Twitter (now X), or the Substack blog I use to create the posts.
Understandably many fear clicking on links you don’t recognize that may cause harm to your computer and I basically agree. I highly suggest, however, using browsing software that includes warnings for bad websites and protects against viruses. You can go directly to my Substack blog at their website putting this URL into your browser: thewhyexplained.substack.com
Additionally, I use AURA (aura.com), an internet company that provides the protections I noted above as well as giving you a private UPN for additional encrypted protection.
From my personal experience with friends and family, many are overwhelmed at the complexity of the modern world with all the issues facing us including some described to be in a ‘crisis’ state. This creates some resistance to looking out beyond what they currently know and expand their knowledge in a simple, easy to understand, you don’t have be a ‘expert’ way if you will to get the ‘gist’ of the issues we’re facing and whether the people that represent you are doing what you’d know to expect for a long-term sustainable solution.
The first step in solving any problem facing us is to identify the ‘economic drivers’ creating the consequences.
Why is this important? In order to create a long-term workable solution, we must know what economic drivers are creating the observed outcomes.
I do understand and grasp many folks have families to attend to including having a self-sufficient full-time job, and also need to provide personal time with family and friends. They are also told repeatedly that the people they voted for are ‘solving problems’. Unfortunately, however, we can see that’s not true in many cases especially issues which are reported as in a ‘crisis state’.
Fortunately for us, the basic economic concept of leveraging ‘specialties’ for increased production and performance is in play. It is, however challenging for most folks to understand how the economic drivers are handled to provide the best outcome.
In other words, we need easy to grasp management indicators which are based on a standard ‘organization plan’ developed for the successful operation of the entity.
This approach can help voters to discern if the candidates before them are actually proposing solutions that will reduce and eliminate the problems they are discussing. But for the reasons above, it remains a significant issue.
This Substack blog was created to help people get a better understanding of the factors that are creating the issue we see reported each day in the news. Hopefully, I’ll be successful in presenting the ‘background knowledge’ in layman’s terms necessary to make good voting choices.
Finally, one has to ponder why ‘mainstream media’, plenty of online pundits, ‘think tanks’, academia and our elected leaders aren’t better at helping us understand the issues in play especially our role in them over the previous decades.
One of my previous posts asked this question:
In any event, I would appreciate anyone viewing my Substack posts to please leave comments and suggests using either Bluesky or X.
While the Substack website permits posting replies to my post, for now I have this feature turned off for now until I understand myself how to monitor the responses especially from ‘internet trolls’ who simply don’t like the explanations presented.
As in all of my blog posts, they are there for you to ‘ponder’ beyond that you’re currently hearing, and possibility expand your horizons and help explain the ‘why’ of important issues in our political discourse. Thanks for your time.