Of the states that give more money than they get, 78% are Democratic.
NOW who's redistributing wealth unfairly?
Details here.
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- Elizabeth Barrette (
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Elizabeth Barrette
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POLITICS: States that give, states that get
Of the states that give more money than they get, 78% are Democratic.
NOW who's redistributing wealth unfairly?
Details here.
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Re: Hmm...
October 31 2008, 21:34:13 UTC 12 years ago
I want people in office who are interested in being public servants, yes, but not necessarily like "ordinary people". I want to be served by people who are smarter, better informed, more visionary and more diplomatic than I am. People who are better at this than me, otherwise I'd just want to do it myself.
The good thing about democracy is that you can change things. The bad thing, though, is that you are always going to want change. You are bound to eventually vote for the losing candidate. The majority may want something you don't particularly like, but you have to live with it anyway.
Re: Hmm...
November 1 2008, 07:01:46 UTC 12 years ago
Too true.
(I can think of a pagan land sanctuary that had that problem a couple of years ago....)
...mmmmyeah.
>> I want to be served by people who are smarter, better informed, more visionary and more diplomatic than I am. <<
I meant "ordinary" in the sense of "not career politickers," instead of "average dumbass." I'd love to have smart people in office. the problem with that is people hate them. And the diplomatic people are usually so invested in making people like them that they aren't very good decision-makers. Finding both high intelligence and high sociability in one person is, alas, not common.
And almost all of them have found safer, saner, more gratifying things to do with their lives than go into politics.
You make a good summary of democracy. Sadly, all known governmental systems exhibit gaping flaws as soon as humans are inserted.