I wrote this last night after turning off the State of the Union

[stephanova]

I used to believe that even though our government was not perfect, it needed people like me on the inside. People that could subscribe to the rules and then revolutionize it from within. I used to think there were people like me already in government, that perhaps there were enough that something good someday might come from them. But today, I

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[swimchick13]

I took a political science class at CU after I graduated and the whole fiasco following the 2000 presidential election. I wanted to have a better idea of how our government worked. There are several things I remember from that class that my professor said one evening. The first was that no matter what your political beliefs are (and he never told us what his were), all politicians are in it for themselves...there's no such thing as altruism in politics. And that's because of the next point he made... He asked us, "What do you call a politician who isn't re-elected?" His answer was, "I don't know, but if they aren't in office anymore, they AREN'T politicians." The main objective of someone in office is to STAY in office, and sometimes there's no limit to the moral compromises people might make to stay there. That's not to say that everyone there is COMPLETELY unethical, but you gotta believe that there is plenty of wheeling and dealing going on on both sides of the party lines... Sad, isn't it?

[joymattingly]

This reminds me of conversations my brilliant friend Carl and I have over this same kind of thing. And it always leads us here:

Politics is a business now and is filled with capitalist pigs and marketing schemes. Our leaders used to be normals Joes-- farmers and business men-- who took the burden of heading an office to support a nation they loved. They served their terms and then went back to their jobs, their families , their lives. Now, of course, a politician is prepped from prep school through college and beyond. It's a job to get and to keep. Think about compromises you make for your job and then combine that with the hype of doing something for America and add a sprinkling of the media and well, politicians are a cursed and confused group.

Best. Bumpersticker. EVER.

[ella_rpr]

"The only bush I trust is my own"

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