The great Kansas experiment continues...

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(10-03-2016, 10:15 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: It's one of the interesting things to me. Politics really is just governance. One textbook definition talks about decisions being made about how people are going to live together. Somewhere along the way, politics is a word that has taken on a whole other connotation. I know I am guilty of saying I don't want politicians, I want statesmen. But when did the concept of politics move from being just about governance to being more about the parties and getting reelected? I mean, what has occurred, at least in our country, is that to the general public that is what they think politics is. It's a sad state of affairs.

Somewhere along the line, the public psyche stopped viewing politics as a way that they could shape their world with their vote, and started looking at it as a force above them that dictated their lives.