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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 1665574" data-attributes="member: 9374"><p>The reason we keep electing the same old scum is because those are the only people who run.</p><p></p><p>People who successfully run businesses, teach, hold careers that serve the public, etc., typically aren't interested in public life or life in office. I know there is no way in hell you could get me to run for so much as city council, much less a state or national office. The limelight and the glitz and glamour just don't appeal to the people who would do the best job of it, frankly. Add in the HUGE dollars required and the ass-kissing required, and most would fail at the first second. By it's very nature, you have to be able to lie, schmooze, kiss ass, hedge bets and ride fences so much that good, hard-working, self-respecting people just don't have the time or inclination to debase themselves that much - just for a title and power. </p><p></p><p>People at work say I'm the boss... but I tell them I'm NOBODY'S boss but my own. They have their own supervisors, and it's not me. I don't WANT to be anyone's boss... if I'd wanted that, I'd have gone into administration or business. Or politics. I think politics is the ultimate ego-trip for most of these folks. Even the ones with a down-home southern accent who pander to our fears and talk like they support us and our rights and desires still go to Washington and pal up with their cronies and try to catch flies with honey, rather than telling it like it really is. I think the only one I have heard of who is balls-to-the-wall no-compromise on key issues is Ron Paul, but he'll never make it any farther than he is now. He's been marginalized beyond his ability to recover (for good or ill).</p><p></p><p>As long as we have career politicians, and it's more about star-power than about <strong>serving</strong>, we'll keeping getting what we've got... a bunch of narcissists who think we all need to be "managed" or protected from ourselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 1665574, member: 9374"] The reason we keep electing the same old scum is because those are the only people who run. People who successfully run businesses, teach, hold careers that serve the public, etc., typically aren't interested in public life or life in office. I know there is no way in hell you could get me to run for so much as city council, much less a state or national office. The limelight and the glitz and glamour just don't appeal to the people who would do the best job of it, frankly. Add in the HUGE dollars required and the ass-kissing required, and most would fail at the first second. By it's very nature, you have to be able to lie, schmooze, kiss ass, hedge bets and ride fences so much that good, hard-working, self-respecting people just don't have the time or inclination to debase themselves that much - just for a title and power. People at work say I'm the boss... but I tell them I'm NOBODY'S boss but my own. They have their own supervisors, and it's not me. I don't WANT to be anyone's boss... if I'd wanted that, I'd have gone into administration or business. Or politics. I think politics is the ultimate ego-trip for most of these folks. Even the ones with a down-home southern accent who pander to our fears and talk like they support us and our rights and desires still go to Washington and pal up with their cronies and try to catch flies with honey, rather than telling it like it really is. I think the only one I have heard of who is balls-to-the-wall no-compromise on key issues is Ron Paul, but he'll never make it any farther than he is now. He's been marginalized beyond his ability to recover (for good or ill). As long as we have career politicians, and it's more about star-power than about [B]serving[/B], we'll keeping getting what we've got... a bunch of narcissists who think we all need to be "managed" or protected from ourselves. [/QUOTE]
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