It seems after four or eight years people tend to forget what happened during the previous administration.
2007-05-17 10:04:49 · 9 answers · asked by Jim H 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
our brain naturally filters old info into a "not important" sector because it doesn't dictate instant survival... it's still there.. we just don't have a "need" to think about it as often.
2007-05-17 10:08:32 · answer #1 · answered by pip 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know I've wondered that myself, and in doing so it made me realize more than I wanted.
When Clinton signed the first welfare reform bill, I was kind of impressed, after all he kept his campaign promise. Actually he did several things I approved of. During his terms he also sold advanced technology to China, and as we now know; he kept N. Korea in check by giving them money. Still all in all he made presidential moves and acted like he knew what he was doing.
Always an Independent (not reform party) and leaning conservative I knew I wouldn't vote for Clinton when his term was over, more often than not my common sense takes over and I end up voting mostly Republican, that is, until I witnessed the four horseman (Phil Grahmm, Newt Gingrich, Asa Hutchinson and one other, not Dole) laughing on the floor of the house after they won the vote to impeached Clinton. Not long after that incident (whether or not he deserved impeachment) it struck me as though it was just a big ego game for the players, and the more I thought of it that way, the more it looks that way.
Politicians know we have short memories or are completely ignorant of what really happens. So, when you ask why, you really have to reach down deep to disect these wallflowers and dinasaurs. Most of them will say what they need to say when the time is right and when they can get a vote or money for it.
Remember: A campaign pledge is not a true mandate for an electorate.
My opinion these days, no second terms for anyone, and I vote for politicians that have the least chance of being corrupted by special interest. To make my point: Ask any politician, in any party how they plan to pay off the National debt... We've had the bill for over 60 years, we only pay interest and it keeps getting bigger...$9 trillion last count!!
2007-05-17 18:05:34 · answer #2 · answered by ggraves1724 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People don't really analyze what happened, so they forget about the whole thing. Look at the 1 gulf war. It was such a hokus pokus, unnecessary and idiotic. The Pentagon tried to make Saddam's army into that powerful dangerous monster. What really happened was, that not a single soldier died from enemy fire, not even by accident. The lives lost where due to helicopter crashes, truck and car accidents and friendly fire.
Then, 13 years later, after grueling sanctions, Bush told us the same crap about the powerful army in Iraq. Everybody believed him, he even believed himself.
2007-05-17 17:19:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not just politics, but it could be cause we want to believe in the good of people. Forgive and forget.
2007-05-17 17:11:02 · answer #4 · answered by golfengineer3 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question if you find out let me know, personally I think it is conditioned into us by the government over the years!
2007-05-17 17:10:06 · answer #5 · answered by samhillesq 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If it doesn't have an effect on the here and now? People are like, "why even bother?"
2007-05-17 17:10:55 · answer #6 · answered by Kooties 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ignorance and people are to focused on where we are going and not where we have been. history can repeat itself a billion times and we wont learn a thing.
2007-05-17 17:11:36 · answer #7 · answered by thelynch07 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Self preservation in all senses.
2007-05-17 17:12:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the less bullshit that infiltrates my mind, the smarter i remain
2007-05-17 17:14:55 · answer #9 · answered by stashspade 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋