Writer shares what he sees as rules for all presidents

With all the animosity from our politicians we now experience and this being a presidential election year I have given much thought to our (any) president and the position they hold at the top of the “stack.” Party affiliation was not included in these thoughts, all presidents experience the same public response.

I have come to realize and think there are six rules which apply to the president. Three of them can be thought of true to a fact and unchangeable, three of them can only be thought of as an illusion of our minds and thinking.

Feel free to add other rules, I’m sure there may be many.

Rule number one: The buck stops here. This came from Harry Truman (anyone remember him?), president from 1945 into January, 1953. It simply means anything and everything, good or bad (especially bad), cause of no matter, fault of no matter, ends on the president’s desk and it becomes his complete responsibility.

According to segments of the public, the president is automatically to blame (whether his fault or not), they want immediate “action” and solution, it must be to their satisfaction without adverse consequences. Yet keep in mind, the public and opposing politicians will find “bad” in the best of all worlds, even heaven itself.

Rule number two: Any person can make a good decision, any person can make a bad decision.

Any person with the best of everything, intelligence, knowledge of the subject and corresponding facts, the best advisors and willingness to heed their words can at times make a poor decision. They will just make less of them.

The opposite is also true of any person, no matter any intelligence level, no matter how ignorant they are of the subject and any corresponding facts, no matter how poor their advisors are can at times make a good decision. Their chances of this become more slim at best, they will make few of them.

Rule number three: Problems never end, never really are solved, they just change.

When I write of problems, I include local, state, national, and world situations whether man-made or caused by natural events. Many of them become rule number one. Do something about “today’s problem,” there’s another something tomorrow. It can reoccur every day, day after day after day.

Now the last three laws of the president position, those I have written are an illusion of our minds and thoughts.

Rule number four: When the winner of the presidential election is announced in November, within 10 seconds, someone, somewhere will declare the president-elect already has the nation all “murked up.” Within 10 seconds.

This needs no explanation, it speaks for itself. Don’t believe me, after the winner is announced in November, start asking about opinions. I’m sure you will find what I write is true.

Rule number five: I (we) can do it better or I (we) could have done it better.

This is universal thinking for most of us, we all could have done something better than the next person. This also applies to any current president and their actions and decisions at all times. Don’t believe me, start asking questions.

It does not apply to any thought or party affiliation, everyone is the same.

My question is, after all the years of making things “better,” why isn’t everything “better”? This rule has been in affect from the beginning of this nation. After all these many years, should not “better” be accomplished with everything now being the “best” of “better”?

Rule number six: It’s not my (our) fault. This applies to so much of any party affiliation, they seldom accept what happened as happening even while there may have been small chance to change the moment and outcome. Instead they “ignore” or “cover up” facts which are never told, alter and modify words to control thoughts and thinking. They point fingers at everything but the real source which in many cases would be themselves. Many will outright lie to hide true facts.

Those are my six rules which apply to the office of the president, party affiliation need not apply. I think the first three have much relevance to that office, almost laws written in stone.

The last three rules are where many people stop “thinking,” reactions become automatic and negative. They usually have no or very little relevance to the moment itself.

Most of us seldom think of our past presidents (of any party affiliation) and their history, the impact they can have on current and even future presidents.

Over the many years of this nation, there have been mistakes and “glitches” made by all parties. They have had tremendous impact on the nation, good and bad, the bad taking years to move away from which will probably last forever going forward. Isn’t this the biggest trait of the human race, mistakes and “glitches”?

The good news, in this nation we get to talk about them, write about them, can remove those who made them by peaceful means and efforts.

Protection of these rights we all hold dear to our hearts and minds is still needed (now more than ever), which will always be an ongoing effort. With out rights to vote, our rights to express our opinion by voting, we must judge carefully about those we want on top of the “stack.”

— Walter Tomczyk, Dorchester