I can’t think of anyone who loves politicians, but love em (if you’re out there) or hate em, we all need to understand how they function because to some extent we are all just like them. Politics has murky connotations, which is probably on purpose because the profession deals with something equally murky: the human mind.
Politicians have to navigate a world of human emotion, irrationality, and want, knowing what people want to hear, but also what’s possible. They acknowledge the weight and potential of each word and action they take, seeing consequences far further into the future than the average person. We all deal with those heavy realities and those future consequenes, but most of us don’t understand or foresee them as clearly.
We are all politicians in our daily lives, both personal and professional, but many times we just aren’t very good ones. Believe it or not, there might actually be something we could learn from them.
