Called the "good old boy" system......hasn't changed in the last 100 yrs, likely won't in the next 100. Even the most honest people seem to get caught up in the politics and before their first year is up they're corrupt!
Exactly. It is terminally flawed. The system of representative democracy works in theory, but not when the decay is this advanced. Our system is rotten to its core. It was first biased against women, then minorities, then gays. We enacted laws to prevent these biases. Some worked, others not so much..... Now the bias is more along socio-economic lines. At first it was the most poor, regardless of color (think rural eastern kentucky, or inner city baltimore for example)that were left out, now our government's inability (or unwillingness) to serve has expanded to include the working lower and middle classes. This is not a racial, gender, religious, sexual orientaion, or any other sub-groups problem any more. It is imperative that the people of this country recognize what is being done to us. We are allowing our attention to be diverted by silly squabbles amongst ourselves, all the time the government removes more and more of our rights and freedoms (lately under the guise of homeland securty) and furthers the interests of the few individuals and groups that ply them with money and influence. We can never hope to solve the problem until we recognize what's happening and put our differences aside.
Amen.
The system is broken. No point in electing somebody else to accept the money that runs sh!t, it doesn't fix the problem. As soon as the new guy gets there he has to start figuring out how to stay there. This would not be an issue if he couldn't come back......
Making time for anything besides money is not a priority in our society.
Like the movie said: "People are stupid. A person may be smart, but people are stupid." The millions of dollars that are spent on advertising are spent because it works. We as a people are lazy and would rather believe something that is shoved in front of us repeatedly versus finding out the truth for ourselves. The terminal flaw in that logic is that folks think that if a candidate says one thing they agree with, they have to agree with it all. It's sad and funny at the same time.
WE, meaning society, is the problem. I agree, but differ on what in our society the problem is. You say if we would just follow the system all would be well. I contend that the system itself is broken and we would rather argue about trivial matters than fix it.
