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Originally Posted by aricbcool
It seems to me that the status quo for today's politician is to merely paint a rosy picture for the people to buy into and then navigate the opinion polls for as long as he/she can. Regards,
Aric
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As Professor Jim Christoph at Indiana University told us, politics is simply a game of "ins and outs." Those who are in power will do or say nearly anything to stay in power and those who are out of power will do or say nearly anything to get into power.
This isn't anything new. IMO, politicans are masters at identifying matters that are not necessarily a major issue, convincing people that they are major issues, offering solutions that only they can carry out on those matters, and then--much like weather forecasters trying to explain away their incorrect forecast--convincing voters that the issue they identified was more complex than originally thought...and that it is going to cost us all a lot more to "fix" a problem that either didn't need fixing or is beyond our capabilities to fix anyway.
Politicans remind me of the scene from
The Wizard of Oz where Toto pulls the curtain back and exposes the so-called wizard for what he really is--a fraud who then says, "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Am I cynical, not really...but my Dad taught me that if I wanted to hang on to the money I'd earned, I needed to be leery of snake oil salesmen, lawyers, clergymen, and politicians.
Richard
