At 09:50 AM 3/22/04 +0100, Christian Lheureux wrote:
>John wrote after Yosef :
>
>> >In politics "States Rights" like "Civil Rights" is a red
>> herring. Everyone
>> >is pursuing there own vested interests. Republicans are no worse than
>> >Democrats and no better. Neither has the interest of the
>> working people in
>> >mind. Each doles out small drabs of hope. Each reels in the
>> poor fools that
>> >attempt to turn that hope into reality.
>>
>> Yosef, this is a terribly depressing view of life, isn't it??  I don't
>> think that people are this downtrodden and helpless.
>
>It's not a particularly depressing view. It's very realistic to assume that
>politicos of all flavors do not have any form of public service and/or
>public interest in mind. All they do is basically sell themselves of their
>platforms as the current talk-of-the-day, and them sell the same overcooked
>merchandise over and over at each election. To me, electoral platforms are
>the equivalent of microwaved leftovers, with no taste, and re-hashed over
>and over every 2/4/5/6 (underline your local legislative body's term length)
>years.
>
>IMHO, believing in politicos' sincerity is like, say, believing in Santa
>(called Father christmas, here, btw).
>
>In other words, I view Yosef's statement not as depressing, but as
>realistic.
>

You don't have to believe what they tell  you.  In fact, you have a civic
duty to replace them if they're selling you junk, just as you'd stop doing
business with any junk merchant.  You have the power...use it.

John Lee

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