Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday that America āis not sending their best and brightestā to represent them in Congress. āSometimes you literally just canāt believe like, these people are makā¦
Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday that America āis not sending their best and brightestā to represent them in Congress. āSometimes you literally just canāt believe like, these people are makā¦
I for one donāt think there is a single thing wrong with the idea of a professional politician. The problem is the legalized bribery that comes in the form of campaign donations.
Agreed. If you have extremely inexperienced politicians, your end result is that they are easily manipulated by whatever or whoever gets to whisper in their ear, like said lobbyists.
While bribery is one of the big problems, it is often based on the fact that a politician has been around (and groomed) for a long time. Thatās one reason why a professional politician is a danger to society. The other point is that most politicians have never experienced real life.
Look at the US: guys from rich homes, having studied law and politics at prestige universities where they started building up on political contacts, and have been nothing but politician since then. Some have had political offices for 40, 50 years. And not a single hour of real life experience.
Sadly itās a reflection of the values Americans hold. In that sense, we reap what we sow.
We certainly donāt want the ignorant populist candidate like Donald which was a knee-jerk reaction to the very sentiment you raise here (not to be confused with an educated populist like Bernie).
I think, ādAE hAtE pOliTiCiaNS?ā misdirects our focus, when the real focus is: why do we keep electing these people? Why do we think businessmen and lawyers are the apex of society and not, say, teachers and scientists?
Talking about politicians generally misses the fact that the vast majority of our problems for decades has stemmed from one single party and one single archaic ideology.