Helsinki--the Tipping Point?

[Benton]

(07-17-2018, 03:36 PM)GMDino Wrote: The "non-politician" is the problem.

And the "politicians" from his party are protecting him.  So how'd that work out? 

(07-17-2018, 03:39 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I can see why people would be tempted to give a non politician a shot, but I think the bloom may be off the rose on that one.  But you never know, and it wouldn't surprise me if being a celebrity with no experience continues to be a popular selling-point for the presidency.

Politicians did this to politicians by making politician a bad word.

There's nothing wrong with someone who dedicates their life to public service. There are thousands of local, state and federal level elected candidates who are good people with the best public interests in mind. But the angst over politicians and the distrust largely comes from... politicians. They do it every time they blame society's problems on "the other side" and, indirectly, when they abuse their office for personal gain. When politicians lobby to raise the retirement age to 70, vote to increase each taxpayer's debt and then announce their retirement at the ripe old age of 48, it makes it much easier for people like Trump to con the public into thinking he's different. Which, of course, he isn't, he's just abused the system in a different way.