Ten minutes to write. Less time to read.

We are finally inside a year before the next presidential election.  Up to now, I have ignored much of the sturm und drang that’s happened with various debates, Congressional hearings, and television rantings; because I don’t think the election process should take so much of our attention for so long.

But now that there’s just a year to go, I’m coming out from under my rock and will become more intellectually curious. I promise to see more debates on both sides, although I would prefer they were actual debates instead of brick-batting sessions. I promise to read articles from both sides of the aisle, if you will. And I promise not to vote for any first term senator from any party who might win the nomination. I already did that, and it’s taught me that such people really don’t have the connections, the communications, or the control to be in charge.

It comes down to the old saying credited often to George Santayana: “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”