Why is every legislative session shrouded in political mystery?
Politics in Hawaiʻi is full of mystery, but not good mystery. Hawaiʻi’s mysteries are not engaging whodunits. They are obscurities and opacities that bewilder us and make us cynical.
By now, this politics of mystery is built into Hawaiʻi’s fabric. It’s business as usual, you know, just the way it is. That makes it particularly insidious.
Shortly after the session ended, I listened to a group of politically involved legislature-watchers, all with serious lobbying experience, try to figure out what happened to the minimum wage bill.
Good luck with that.
