In this election year, this guy hits it out of the park… Whomever he is…
I didnt write it, but I agree with it.
“My opinion: Most people enter politics from a strong need for power and control. And personal profit. Plain and simple. Politics attracts crooks.
A tiny number of people pursue political office from a purely altruistic, civic-minded desire to serve. As a rule, those folks get eaten up before they reach any office higher than mayor. Or they become the rare politician who finds a perfect match with a local constituency, and they all work together happily for many years. That’s the ideal. Apple pie in the sky, and all that. But it’s increasingly rare. Almost extinct, to my observation.
Beyond that point, however, the average person can’t afford to run for higher office without becoming part of the political marketing industry. So their sense of altruism begins to wither. They try to fight it for awhile, but eventually they sell out, and become part of the elaborately staged political theater. At that point it’s game over, at least for me. I have no faith in any current political player at the state or federal level, anywhere. They’re all part of the machine, which requires endless conflict to keep the game moving and perpetuate its profits.
I know people who get annoyed when I say the two main U.S. parties are indistinguishable. Not about issues: Both parties follow tightly scripted, issue-driven agendas carefully calculated to appeal to specific demographics. Members of both parties operate pretty much in lockstep with those agendae, ensuring constant gridlock (which, coincidentally, profits the political marketing industry). So yes, obviously I can hear the difference in the scripts they follow, and the talking points they’ve memorized. But beyond that, they’re just part of this noxious entity that has eaten the country I love. I hate it. I hate all of it. Yes, I always vote, though I do not vote according to any party line. But I hold my nose while I do it, and deposit the ballot as though I’m throwing out a bag of dog crap, because I know that at the state and federal level it’s all a load of crap, regardless of which false-binary badge a candidate may wear.
Whew. Deep breath. So yeah. I’ve had people ask if I’d ever consider running for political office. I’m thinking HELL no. I’ve got other ways I can serve humanity, I can pick up trash on the side of the road on the weekends… At least that is ‘clean’ work!”
