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Originally Posted by graciegirl
.... We just need a solid patriot, an ethical person with common sense who is brave enough to protect us but soft enough to love us all. A Saint, and very few are saints, so someone who is trying hard to do the right thing....
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I have no doubt that such qualities still exist, and possibly even in the same individuals. However, given the direction that "the P word" has gone since, say, the 1970s, anyone who fits this description would likely have no interest in public office as it's constituted today. Sad, but I believe true....
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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
.... It is too uncomfortable for most to admit that politics is ran by lobiests and not the voter. And, our religious leaders remind us that to question anything is a sacralig. Thank god for our young folks that will question and protest.
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If when you say that "politics is run by lobbyists" you mean that the country is actually "governed" by lobbies, I am in full agreement. Given the quality of our so-called "public servants" (ha!), all we need to do is recognize that lobbies have deep pockets—and today's politicians have decidedly open pockets....
As far as religious leaders are concerned, I'm not even going there. In fact, in my own life I
never go there! It is for each of us to judge for ourselves, but after all the deference some are willing to give religious leaders, they are still people themselves, and some are or were not very nice people. One need only to think of the likes of Rev. Jim Bakker, the pedophile scandals and the cover-ups about them, and the Phelps family from Kansas to know this without a doubt.
And hopefully there is still some reality about "young folks who will question and protest," but this is sure less true now than when we were "young folks." Today, at the risk of generalizing, young
American folks barely know their own history, let alone are aware that there is a world other than the U.S. ("Yes, Virginia, there is a world beyond 'sea to shining sea'.") In reality, there
is much to "question and protest" about, but do you see it happening on any scale as it did, say, during the late '60s and early '70s? Think about it....