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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
"Either candidate is going to most likely say things that will help to get them into office. Pandering to the public."
What a sad commentary on this thing we call a democracy. We throw our support to one candidate or the other, not really understanding all the issues, and knowing and accepting that they simply lie to us in order to get elected to office. Then once there, they serve themselves first and do what they want, regardless of what they promised while campaigning. And we accept it and even continue to defend them.
What a system. What a shame.
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I don't disagree, but it is the way it is. Every single election we hear.
Change!
I'm going to fix the Health care crisis!
Were going to put Social Security in a lock box!
I'm here to help the working American!
Let's put America first!
............ Please fill in any others that you can think of here.
On one hand, it's all BS, say what's needed to get elected. On the other hand, if politicians actually said what they really felt, no one would ever get elected. You can't be in the public eye in this country without what you say being on the front cover of every website/newspaper/blog. People want to belive that every single politician they vote for isn't a bigot, a racist, actually cares about helping the people that elected them, etc, etc, etc. In real life, some of them are racist's, bigot's, etc. but if any of them gave any indication of that, they would not be elected. So lying and pandering to the public are needed to get votes.
On one hand, as I said, it's BS. On the other hand, the system does seem to work pretty well as we do have the greatest nation on Earth.