There are days I think the whole problem with America, as a state, is short term thinking. 

Out here in the world we’ve talked about it before. Generally, European companies have (historically, though this has changed) looked to long term planning. American companies have tended towards short term profits. 

They look from quarter to quarter, at best from year to year. As long as they meet their quarterly goals in terms of profits or whatever, it’s a good thing. 

And they do make money, for sure. Long term planning takes time to see the benefit, and Capitalist Logic has always stated that money today is better than money tomorrow. 

But American politics tends to only look at the short term. 

And people who look at American politics also tend to have a surprisingly short attention span. 

To take the current situation as an example, people freak out about the Republican candidates on a day to day basis. I guess we have to thank those men for providing us with daily entertainment, but people have a way of freaking out about gay rights one day, women’s rights another day, the economy the next day, religion another day, and every month or two it rotates around. And yet every time an issue comes up, it is the only major issue and it is treated as such. 

All of these things are open to extensive criticism, but it appears to be far too easy to get stuck in the small picture.