tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post2514924047898676861..comments2024-03-18T03:28:36.581-04:00Comments on Shrink Rap: Dear Boston Globe Spotlight Team: Access to Care is About So Much More than Public Safety Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-91635038244628744122016-08-31T12:42:29.485-04:002016-08-31T12:42:29.485-04:00Politicians respond to at least two things that ha...Politicians respond to at least two things that have NOTHING to do with representation at the end of the day:<br /><br />1. People with mental illness are unlikely to vote, so there is no investment to pander to them, which is what the majority of politicians in all levels of government, be it local, state, or federal do at the end of the day.<br /><br />2. People with mental illness do not donate to political campaigns, which again is what drives these incompetents, er, incumbents to pursue the voter groups they need, again, not want or instinctively connect with to support and assist.<br /><br />So, if those two premises are true, and I know they are, how can people who are involved in the mental health system honestly and genuinely expect change for the better??<br /><br />Statistically speaking, incumbency figuratively and literally dumbs down the representative from appropriately and responsibly doing the job of representation. So, the public gets what they deserve: selfish ignorant and incompetent citizens elect and reelect selfish ignorant and incompetent "leaders" who aren't interested in truth and reality.<br /><br />Thus, why we have either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to be our next President.<br /><br />What bugs me almost every day isn't that there are an entrenched 20-25% equally at both ends of this polarized process of the Republocrats, but, the 40-50% who are NOT entrenched to a party affiliation can't neutralize this pervasive ignorance and cluelessness! Do the math, if Clinton has 30% of the vote, Trump about 25-30% as well, then that frees up about 40% to provide us a candidate who would win the majority minority vote!<br /><br />But, dividing and conquering these past 8 years has been brutally effective, EH?!<br /><br />Joel Hassman, MDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com