Pegasus Post: October 04, 2016

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Tuesday October 4 2016
Your Local Views
lections breed new ideas
Southshore
Residents’
Association
chairman Bill
Simpson talks
about the
merit behind
electioneering ideas.
When the Wright brothers
made experimental flights near
their home town, news media
showed no interest.
Residents told stories about
a machine in the sky, but news
staff would not believe the stories
and never checked them out. As
a local editor said: “I guess the
truth is that we were just plain
dumb.”
They missed one of the biggest
stories in modern history.
Sometimes I wonder if we miss
the significance of the events
around us.
Take the current local body
elections for example. There are
some brilliant ideas being suggested
by candidates but we tend
to dismiss them as electioneering
and, therefore, not worthy of
further investigation. Free buses?
Has the idea been checked out?
We would probably say it is up to
the candidate to give us the costs
and show us how it would work.
Actually, the concept has been
around for a long time and is
a reality in some parts of the
world. There are several transport
planners (employed by various
councils) who could readily
give us a very clear picture of the
costs and benefits. But will we
hear from them during this election?
Probably not, for obvious
reasons.
If candidates with good ideas
do not get elected, then will their
ideas die? Let’s hope not.
In the current elections, there
do seem to be fewer candidates
and less public discussion. One
of the results could be that we
lose diversity. But for a better
future, we need diverse opinions,
attitudes, perceptions and ideas.
As George Patton said: “If everybody
is thinking alike, then
somebody isn’t thinking.”
Wouldn’t it be great if we could
somehow capture all the good
ideas and nurture them beyond
the point-scoring process of an
election? It would take some
courage – after all, who wants
to champion the raving of a
failed candidate after voting has
stopped.
Perhaps then, we should look
for candidates who are open to
all good ideas and not just their
own. These would be candidates
who are able to listen and are
able to guide good ideas to
fruition.
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