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post #46 of 48
8/16/10 at 8:07pm
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Originally Posted by Monaco View Post
#5, there aren't many #5's in the political spectrum and tho who take interest in politics, that is why nothing ever gets done. Plus the reason why there are more 1-4's is because the politicians need em there to keep them in power. REP>DEM>REP>DEM infinite.



Politics in the UK, where I'm basing my thoughts from, differs so much from the US though. But I think if you disregard that people want to get into politics to help the country its naive.
Politicians put in more work than so many other professions, and these are great intellectual minds. If you think that they aren't in it to help the country, then that's stupid. If they went into law or finance they could be making far more than they ever would in politics.

Incidentally a very liberal American friend of mine who has lived in the UK for the past 10 years told a US traveller we met once that UK politics basically runs in the same circle too. Except here - the left will come in with bright ideas, screw things up, then the right come in and sort it out. An inspirational leftie will come in again, then mess it up again ad infinitum.
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post #47 of 48
8/16/10 at 9:41pm
"A really healthy society, so Thoreau once wrote, would be like a healthy body which functions perfectly without our being aware of it. We, on the other hand, are coming more and more to assume that the healthiest society is one in which all citizens devote so much of their time to arguing, weighing, investigating, voting, propagandizing, and signing protests in a constant effort to keep a valetudinarian body politic functioning in some sort of pseudo-health that they have none of the margin for living which Thoreau thought important."

- Joseph Wood Krutch
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post #48 of 48
8/16/10 at 10:20pm
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Originally Posted by beachbummer View Post
government matters, because poor leadership costs--One reason why I follow politics closely. Whether you choose to believe it or not, decisions made at every level of government, affect us as citizens in some form or another--even when you can't see it.

This is also a very good post, and something people gloss over.

People pay the most attention to Presidents and major Congressional races. But in reality, your actual life is just as affect as much, or more, by your local elections. San Francisco and Houston, Vermont and Oklahoma, are all governed by the same President and federal Congress, but life in each one is pretty different and that's based on the decisions of local and state politicians (you know, the races and candidates that no one cares about).
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