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The definition of insanity is often stated as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Our 5-step election cycle seems to fit.
Step 1. Spend two, four, six years grumbling about the high cost of ineffective, inefficient and corrupt government.
Step 2. Reelect incumbents or their chosen successors — except for those ticketed for DUI since the last election — and approve all ballot initiatives that will add more (usually unnecessarily duplicative) layers of bureaucracy and their attendant cost to taxpayers.
Step 3. Expect a different result than “more of the same old, same old.”
Step 4. Be amazed/disappointed when it doesn’t turn out that way.
Step 5. Return to Step 1.
Paul Scheftel
Kailua
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