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How about politicians?
by ekianjo 4y ago
How about politicians?
- s1artibartfast 4y agoHow about voters, and now we come full circle
- Lev1a 4y agoProblem with that is, politicians promise all kinds of things for their election campaigns, then do whatever TF they want anyway once they're elected and sitting pretty effectively untouchable by the peasantry that elected them, getting rich and fat for a few years before "retiring" to a cushy board position of some company they "incidentally" helped during their political "career". Politicians are mostly professional parasites and most political systems seem to attract, apart from the odd once-in-a-while genuine idealist, exactly that type of people.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoIt seems like the electorate prefers those who promise the moon over honest idealists. I find it very hard to imagine that there is a lack of honest grass-roots idealists in a country of 350+ million people, so it must be a lack of people willing to vote for them.