Same old boring same old in the news, but in discussing the Rangel issue, Ann Kirkpatrick, Democrat Representative of Arizona said: "Too many politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have fallen victim to the idea that they are 'different' than regular folks and nothing could be further from the truth."
I noted her comment because I think she's 180 degrees wrong. I believe most politicians are very different than "regular folks" in almost every way imaginable.
For starters, I believe most regular people are honest, hard working, family-oriented, caring folks who spend their lives trying to do the best they can for and with those they deal with in all aspects of their personal and professional lives, and naturally, for themselves as well. Conversely, however, I believe that politicians of every stripe are low-life, thieving, weasels interested in only themselves and totally untrustworthy in every aspect of life. As the old saying goes, you can tell when politicians are lying whenever their lips move.
Our problem is that politics is such a foul and dirty way to spend one's life that most competent, trustworthy people wouldn't agree to what needs to be done to first get elected and then stay in office. And, if one should be unlucky enough to actually wind up being elected they then have to deal with all the other slime-buckets that populate or feed off all political positions. Then, if you don't join them in their self-serving, larcenous games you're ostracized into oblivion.
So, considering the way our system works, I believe the reason we wind up with all the stooges, dunces, and thieves that we do is because they're the dregs of our society and the only one's willing to stoop to that low an occupational level in the first place. I think you can easily see the proof of what kind of quasi-literate flea brains hold political office by spending a few minutes watching the daily broadcasts from the House and Senate. The level of incompetence, absence of intellect and abject ignorance among these people is scary.
I guess in the last analysis though, politics is a pretty good thing. Because we all know about the employment problem in the "private" sector. So, if these flea-brains were not in office they'd have to look for real jobs and aren't likely qualified for almost any worthy occupation. Even 75% of the toll booths have automated baskets for collection which is one of the few things I think the average politician might qualify for. Consequently, with all these brain-dead boobs getting turned down for real jobs, the unemployment level would skyrocket out of sight.
Then again, if you had a guy like Chuck Schumer in a toll booth, it might take forty-five minutes of listening to worthless wind just to get your change back.
That's it for today folks.
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