They ask themselves about tomorrow or next week or maybe the next election and solve problems as they come.
And few Ivorians think an election will solve the country's political impasse anyway.The main obstacle is identifying who is qualified to vote.
Often the biggest mistake made in peace-building is the belief that, when emerging from conflict, a good election will solve everything.
There is little to suggest that elections would solve any thing, or that the losers would accept the results.
Filipinos are fervently hoping that the computerisation of the vote-counting in May's presidential, congressional and local elections will solve the problem.
"Will you dissolve Parliament or not?" Mr. Abhisit, looking uncomfortable at times, said he would "make a decision based on a consensus from the entire country" and questioned whether new elections would solve Thailand's four-year-old political crisis.
At any rate, the way out of this pickle is obvious: speed up/slow down the transfer of sovereignty, hand over to the United Nations (or should that be NATO?), hold elections/give up the illusion that elections can solve anything in the Arab world.
I'm a proud Democrat; but too often, politicians in both parties care more about winning elections than solving problems.
Though he didn't mention Trump by name, his farewell speech was an impressive jeremiad against the frontrunner's divisive brand of politics, and also the conservative movement and GOP Establishment, which he accused of "being more interested in winning elections than solving problems or standing by principles".
Uncertainty in the economy, expensive and deadly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 45 million people without health insurance, high unemployment, financial and corporate disasters, a climate crises with irreversible consequences, record budget deficits and a broken political system that exacerbates the problems because too many politicians care more about their own re-election than solving problems.
