Gardening and Politics

Gardeners prepare the planting bed, plant a seed, add some fertilizer and water, and stand back to watch the plant grow for a bit. Gardeners tend the plant carefully, ensuring that it has enough water, light, and food to grow into a big and healthy plant. Sometimes the gardener has to deal with unwelcome additions to the garden -- weeds, whose seeds are brought in by other forces. Those weeds' sole purpose is to grow and they will use anything they need to do it, including the water, light, and food so lovingly provided by the gardener. If the gardener wants the plant to grow, he has to get rid of the weeds. Politics is very much like gardening. There are some people in politics whose sole purpose in life is to grow weeds. They throw those seeds out there, wait until they fall upon fertile ground, add plenty of manure and then keep feeding the manure hoping that the weed will gradually smother and kill the good plant. When it comes to politics, we are all a fertile garden waiting to be planted. Will your garden grow weeds? Or flowers? I keep an eye out for weeds in my garden, and they are ruthlessly yanked out. How about you? Remember, one little weed allowed to grow can ruin years of work and toil in your garden when it starts to spread its own little seeds.