Tempests In A Tea Pot

Have looked at more television recently than I usually do...the viewing increase coming likely...from looking at the U.S. primary elections. I think this time round...they are more interesting than in recent times. I can see...however...that despite this...if you look at television coverage of them too much...you could end up having "tempest in a tea pot" fatigue. Almost every day...there is one of these happening...as one candidate looks for inconsequential...or bordering on the irrelevant things...with which to attack another candidate. This is one of the reasons why I'm not enamoured with election year campaigns in the First World...with the intense tunnel vision of the supporters of one candidate or the other...and the repeated attempts by them to demonize each other...at times full of self righteous phoney indignation. Why has the ugliness become part and parcel of the elective process?. Perhaps...in the democratic process...it is the equivalent...of a trial by fire...never "friendly"...and sometimes phoney...that proves the metal of the one who survives it. Through it...so far...I've had many an occasion to smile...ironically...or otherwise...and have been left with the thought
that calls that come in at three o'clock in the morning...are best handled by an
answering machine...given that when you are awakened suddenly...your brain always
needs time to catch up...before it can become clear and decisive...and it would be foolish to make large decisions before it has............................Quester.