Helsinki--the Tipping Point?

[GMDino]

(07-17-2018, 03:56 PM)Benton Wrote: 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.

And there's nothing wrong with voting for a non-politician.

Unless it's a "rich" guy who lies continuously, has no self-control, is thin-skinned, has tons of personal baggage in the form of publicly embarrassing events and business failures, etc.

Voting for him because "Clinton" is just insane.  Especially when that is the fall back position when confronted with the question of "why" they voted for hm knowing all of HIS faults.