I think the issue at hand is WHY you have to have an IVY League education, or be rich to enter the presidential race.
I think it’s fairly well known and agreed upon that politics is corrupt, and becoming more and more openly corrupt as time marches on. If this is not agreed upon then those not in agreement must be looking upon politics with rosier glasses than I am.
To enter the presidential race you need a lot of support and backing from all and sundry. Why is this? Why is it such a popularity contest that must be fueled by money and behind the scenes agreements and you scratch my back, and down the line I’ll scratch yours? I think most people have heard of the Potomac two step, and understand it’s meaning, and it’s utterly infuriating.
These people we elect are supposed to represent us, and have our best interests at heart and to be brutally honest and frank about it, they don’t. You know it. I know it, and it’s an accepted truth amongst everyone. Hell, they get elected on platforms and promises that they never keep. How can that be an allowed privilige? Yes elect me, I’ll reform, A, B and C. 3 years down the line, not one promise has been kept, and that’s all ok is it? Then there are the arguments as to why the promises are not kept. Oh, this party kept forcing my hand, reality and circumstance intruded upon my reforms, and there was never time to complete or even begin them.
Really? Why the F not? You are a politician. You’ve risen as high up the political ladder by playing the game, so you basically are aware WHAT you CAN achieve and what you cannot, so don’t sit there all smug and tell me why you were unable to keep your election promises, it won’t wash with me. But they do exactly that, time and time again, and the public allows them. And GOD FORBID any of them are ever held under a microscope and are brought forth to answer as to WHY they’ve not kept their promises, because all they’ll offer is soundbites that’s ran by the media and spun one way by one broadcast service, and spun another way by another service. And once again, we’re all ok with this because we expect to be screwed.
Politicians are not chosen for their track record, their chosen by how good they look or sound on camera. Never again would we ever elect a Churchill, or a Roosevelt, because they were ugly, uncouth individuals. No, that time is past, now you have to be pretty and wealthy, and able to walk all over your opposition with ease. We respect that. Apparently.
And then we wonder why the electable positions are full of wealthy white men, who go golfing together, who do back door deals together, who’ve been in business together for years before their political ideals or careers were struck and cast forth. They go into politics because it will BENEFIT THEM. NOT US. NEVER THE PEOPLE THEY ARE APPARENTLY CHOSEN TO REPRESENT.
Not only is the above true, but we KNOW it’s true. We’ve come to accept it to be a truth, and we elect people to office now, and we HOPE they’ll do something for us. We know for SURE they’ll do something for themselves, but we hope whilst they’re doing that, that they will look upon the lowly denizens below them and they’ll kindly consider some of our questions and pleas and maybe, just maybe make decisions that will benefit those who elected them to high positions of power.
It’s sickening, and it’s no wonder there are less candidates from minority groups, or from women candidates, because they simply not on the same level playing fields that these other politicians inhabit.
They make laws that they appear to choose out of a lucky bag. They don’t consider the majority view point, nor do they appear to try to represent the entire nation with it’s wishes and demands. They simply please themselves. They grow richer and they openly make deals that will benefit themselves and their friends, or colleagues. Occasionally one of these deals is trotted out as if to show some scandal, and what occurs? We all ooh and ahh, and say: Hey yeah, now there’ll be justice! And what happens? In most cases, NOTHING. Small fine, slap on the wrist, and right back to what they were doing 2 minutes before the apparent scandal was brought to light. And we ALL KNOW THIS. And again, we’re all apparently ok with this once more. Why? Because even IF we were NOT ok with this, what can we do about it? Why, let’s see…
I can tell everyone else, around me, how unfair it is, and why it’s wrong. They’ll agree, and? Yep, and we all know it’s corrupt, get used to it.
We can enter into politics, and… Yep, without money, power or influential friends, you’re going nowhere. And if you make those friends, why, you’ll have to comprise those ideals that brought you to the table in the first place, because… Because it’s just the way it has to be. No compromise, no support, no support, no political career, no career, no ability to change the political scene that we all know is corrupt.
Maybe, just maybe, you can enter politics with some money behind you and still remain honest. Yep, it’s possible, unlikely but let’s say it’s possible. What then? Why every other politician around you will find some way to dig into your past. Mount smear campaigns, they’ll close ranks, and you’ll be back to square one, because… Yes that’s right! You don’t play the game! You’re an honest politician! WOW! What a concept, and they’ll make damn sure you’re getting screwed because there is NO WAY that you’re about to make politics a sane, sanitised career choice that is chosen by those people who will try to do some good for the community, for the state, and the nation that elects them with that very thing in mind. Goodness no.
It truly makes me sick.
Logic.
it’s time for bed for me).