I was thinking the other night that sports is just another way to introduce heartbreak into the lives of fairly happy people.
So frequent are my sports heartbreaks that sometimes I wonder why I invest myself in any team. Because here’s the thing I realized. Most of the time, the fans care a lot more about wins and losses than the actual people on the team.
And this morning it hit me that it’s the same thing as putting hope for pro-life victories in politicians. We care a lot more about the cause than they do (for the most part.) Whereas athletes are simply playing for their next contract so many of our politicians are playing for the next election.
I’m not going to stop rooting for the Mets or stop voting for pro-life politicians at every level, it’s just that I know most of them just don’t care as much as I do.
Here’s the thing – when the NY Giants had Plaxico Burress and he helped them win the Super Bowl, I never thought Plax loves the Giants. No. But he was a useful tool in beating down the Patriots and winning the Super Bowl.
It’s similar in politics, isn’t it? Either a politician is useful to advance my agenda or he’s not. I think in the end, the point is that politicians are tools. I mean it. They’re either useful tools or not. Most of them aren’t for the cause. They’re not our heroes. They’re either useful tools or not. That’s the decision we each have to make.
October 27, 2011 at 2:19 pm
As citizens, all people must uphold our founding principles. If or when America's founding principles are destroyed America will be destroyed. It is becoming very evident that Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry told half truths denying that all men are created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights. The Supreme Court claimed to not know if or when the person came to exist in the womb. Human existence is the criterion for the objective ordering of human rights without which human rights all men are property of the state. I exist in the mind of God. Atheism had to become the ruling power before abortion could be implemented. God had to be removed from the culture before abortion, genocide, slavery.
October 27, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Every human being becomes a constituent, an integral part of the person who is elected to office. The politician must serve almighty God to serve his people. If the politician serves the devil, the master murderer, the great liar, no human being has a say about how the people are treated, no human being has a say about freedom, truth or human life.
October 27, 2011 at 3:00 pm
"the fans care a lot more about wins and losses than the actual people on the team."
Wow. You don't know many athletes, do you?
October 27, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Thinking of politicians as tools, or perhaps blunt instruments, at least removes them from consideration as friends, allies, or any other sort of person that might be trusted.
October 27, 2011 at 4:54 pm
You're wrong, Matt.
For instance, I always though that Al Gore was a real tool.
October 27, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Should have said, "you are right" not wrong. Good grief.