While sitting on my porcelain throne....

While sitting on my porcelain throne, I take time to whip out my iPod Touch and read articles from Automobile and Motor Trend. Having a WiFi router comes in handy. I am always frustrated by the fact that many articles are about cars none of us will ever be able to afford or they whine and complain about the ones we can.

A recent article about the new Hyundai Veloster is a prime example. There are the observations that it's built on the Accent/Elantra platform, then there are complaints about the engine not being 'zippy' enough like a Mazda3, or the handling not as good as a Golf, or the rear seat headroom not like....x. Which brings me to our national past time of being chronic whiners about virtually everything. In the case of the Veloster, it is what it is. It's is NOT supposed to be a Mazda3 or a Golf or anything else. It is supposed to be a Veloster.

We treat our politics the same way. We nitpick everything. We whine about everything. We draw comparisons to policies and people, past and current. We justify that whining because the person or policy is not to our specific liking. We miss the obvious point, we are a nation of over 300 million people and there is no way possible that any one person or policy is going to meet with 100% approval. So we whine and complain and hit the voting booth, vote the party line and then wonder why nothing changes, so we complain some more. I hear about term limits and have to laugh for example. Why do we need a law to limit a persons term when we can do it ourselves? If we don't have the political will to do it, why should a lawmaker?

As with a car manufacturer, if they responded to every complain from a Car Mag, the car would end up not being what it is. Sure, add a more powerful engine, then the suspension will have to change, the ride a bit stiffer. The whole character of what it was designed to be changes to something it was not supposed to be. The same is with politics, a politician will pander to their audience to the extent that we end up with something other than what we originally expected.

If a politician has a policy, stick with it. Then if elected, we know what we bought was what we actually wanted.