Re: Your Precious Obummer, a monumental fuck up March 23, 2009 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 2,301 |
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AngryReptileKeeper
Not necessarily. I would have to wonder, though. I suppose it depends on the individual. I sure wouldn't want me in office, with some of the things I'd have the gall to try and legislate. Especially when I'm in a bad mood.
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Re: Your Precious Obummer, a monumental fuck up March 24, 2009 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 559 |
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Konkurrent
And if we start disqualifying people based upon potential "trauma" they experienced because that might cloud their judgment we're going to run out of people qualified to hold office. Besides, I don't want someone in office that's never had anything bad happen to them, and I sure as hell would feel more comfortable serving in the military if the Commander In Chief has done it. If he was a POW all the better - I know he knows exactly what it is he's asking me to do and potentially sacrifice for the nation.
Re: Your Precious Obummer, a monumental fuck up March 24, 2009 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 4,402 |
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Re: Your Precious Obummer, a monumental fuck up March 25, 2009 | Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 3,073 |
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Konkurrent
The biggest problem with politics is something that can't be repaired simply:
Those who want the job don't generally deserve it, and vice versa.
Anyone who deserves the responsibility and has the skills to handle it is probably too smart to jump into that shark tank. Everyone who does want into the shark tank is probably a shark.
Complaining that the shark you put into the tank is acting like a shark is futile. They're just like anyone one else with any other job - they want to do what it takes to keep the job. Our job is to make sure that they're in a position to where keeping their job means doing what we hired them to do.
Unfortunately it's just not quite as simple as that, and fixing that makes less sense than trying to fix the main problem. If it were possible to make the job desirable only to those who deserve to do it we'd fix pretty much all the problems all at once.
For example, if a politician's personal welfare and well being were intrinsically linked to the welfare and well being of their constituents, we'd see a massive improvement in politicians acting in the interest of their constituents.
You can't complain because people act like people. Survival of the fittest dictates that we're more inclined to act on our own behalf than on someone else's. When two people are starving the one who gives food to the other is the one who doesn't get to pass on that "weakness" to their offspring. Politicians are merely well-publicized in this "moral shortcoming". All we need to do is link the two: make it in their best interest to act in ours.