Why does anyone trust or believe any politician?

[Limper]

The absolute root of the political profession is compromising everything and lying... why does anyone fall for their antics anymore? You'd think that after thousands of years of this crap folks would wise up.

[Ink Bleeder]

The absolute root of the political profession is compromising everything and lying... why does anyone fall for their antics anymore? You'd think that after thousands of years of this crap folks would wise up.

I'm not sure I need to trust them, or like them, or want to have dinner with them. I just need them to do a good job.

[Limper]

I'm not sure I need to trust them, or like them, or want to have dinner with them. I just need them to do a good job.

I'm not sure if they ever do. Once they get passed the local living next to you point in their careers they no longer represent you or do anything to represent you regardless of what they may say or feel.

[The Winslow]

I trust them to fuck things up.
I believe them to be hypocritical, corrupt liars with a number of pathological illnesses, always including a form of schizophrenia.

Why would anyone vote for them? Because they have the money and influence network needed to reach a position where you can vote for them, while normal people do not. Therefore, it is not possible to vote for normal people.

(At least, this applies to high-level politicians. The election to select the next mayor of a 2500-inhabitants town has much lower entry requirements and a much lower attraction level for the kind of scumbag I was talking about, so on a local, mostly irrelevant scale you can find honest politicians.)

[Limper]

I trust them to fuck things up.
I believe them to be hypocritical, corrupt liars with a number of pathological illnesses, always including a form of schizophrenia.

Why would anyone vote for them? Because they have the money and influence network needed to reach a position where you can vote for them, while normal people do not. Therefore, it is not possible to vote for normal people.

(At least, this applies to high-level politicians. The election to select the next mayor of a 2500-inhabitants town has much lower entry requirements and a much lower attraction level for the kind of scumbag I was talking about, so on a local, mostly irrelevant scale you can find honest politicians.)

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely but it does attract the absolutely corruptable?

[Ink Bleeder]

:lighbulb: Mike Rowe should try politicking on his next "Dirty Jobs!"

[Limper]

:lighbulb: Mike Rowe should try politicking on his next "Dirty Jobs!"

I'd vote for him. He has freely admited that he is to lazy to make a career of anything.

[The Winslow]

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely but it does attract the absolutely corruptible?

Column A, column B, sitting in a tree...

[Random Encounter]

I'd vote for him. He has freely admited that he is to lazy to make a career of anything.

So you like politicians who are too lazy to really do much damage while in office?
Kind of like I prefer criminals to be stupid, it makes them so much easier to catch.

[Varaj]

"Anybody that wants to be a politician shouldn't"

[Lmik]

Why do we trust politicians? Because we have to. We trust the one that we vote for to do a slightly better job than the other guy/girl. I would infinitly prefer them to do it than me because it is a dirty job. How many politicians do we think sleep well at night or have a clear conscience - not many or at least not many that started off as morally good men.

I would rate McCain as a good man but the things he is having to do in this campaign are probably ripping his soul apart.

[Name Lips]

The art of politics is the art of compramise. If you don't meet people halfway, you're never going to get anywhere.

But to meet people halfway is to abandon half of what you thought was right.

It's a fine line to walk. At what point do you lose sight of yourself, buried under a pile of half-realized plans and hopes?

[Teve]

"Anybody that wants to be a politician shouldn't"

I think that is pretty close to what Dad used to say, and I still believe...the people who want power are exactly the kind of people who should not have it.
What happened to people who want to "make a difference" can you get into higher politics and still want to make a difference? I want to start a revolution (like in the song)... Does that put me in that class, of "anyone who wants to be a politician... because really I don't, but someone has to.

[The Winslow]

But to meet people halfway is to abandon half of what you thought was right.

Not necessarily. People, and especially politicians, are not omniscient. If you're are shown a problem with your plan, the compromise isn't abandoning half of what's right but finding a way to be even more right than before.

[Limper]

It's a fine line to walk. At what point do you lose sight of yourself, buried under a pile of half-realized plans and hopes?

My guess is about the time you run for state legislative office. You still had some integrity till that point in time but now you are just another politician.