Why Not Politics?

It's been a long time since I wrote about politics, and considering my former Interweb-home was all about politics, some people may be wondering why.

The short answer is really that I have nothing much to say. The reasons why I have nothing to say are varied, but they mainly come down to two things: 1. Disenfranchisement with a major national parties (I'm looking at you Republicrats) and 2. I don't feel like I have any answers. The first part seems pretty obvious, but let me expand on the second.

The economy is easily the biggest issue we're facing, but fixing the entire economy is a monumental task, and it's so easy to be ineffectual as well as do more harm than good. It seems to me like we should be using more monetary tools, but the Fed has been really quiet, and we've been grasping at increasing government spending (and adding to the deficit), an old Keynesian tactic. There is no easy fix here, and we should do our best to concentrate on what we can do to prevent future collapses of the same variety. This doesn't always mean regulation, but it does mean policymakers engaging thinkers to draft better policy. Health care is a similar issue in this vein.

It also feels like not much is happening. Beyond Iran (to which the proper U.S. response is simple: stand back), it seems like most of the time political issues are either non-issues or they just spin around in circles. It's like Stanley Fish states in this article:

I did not vote for Sarah Palin in the November election, and had I been a resident of South Carolina, I wouldn’t have supported Mark Sanford. But I find their failings and, in the case of Sanford, sins more palatable than the behavior of the pundits who are having so much fun at their expense.

Sometimes, it's too easy to overanalyze. 

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