>>>I dont think it's a common view but regardless of whether that is so or not, one must view things as they are. Policiticans have no interest in anything but getting elected and will say anything to pander to votes. Once we understand this then perhaps we can start thinking of getting somewhere.
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>>>>perhaps we can start thinking of getting somewhere.
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>>Where will that get you?
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>>Winston Churchill (another politician who worried about getting elected) once said that democracy is the worst political system- except for all the others.
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>>Lincoln, FDR, Churchill et al were all, at the end of the day, machine politicians who did whatever they had to do to get elected.
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>“Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reasons.”
>-Mark Twain

Twain could really cut to the chase, couldn't he?

However, after having been one of the most successful writers and lecturers of his time, he died nearly broke.