2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"what this country needs is more unemployed politicians"
quote from angela davis, whose birthday is today.
watch the sky
(129 posts)and she's right - Happy Birthday, Angela, and many more to come!
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)(Especially the Congress!)
niyad
(113,582 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)for making politics a respectable profession again, and encouraging promising students to consider it. Otherwise we'll keep getting Tea Party congresses or worse. I think the contempt directed to our current Congress is probably well aimed, although somebody's voting in the clowns so it's by no means unanimous.
But there are lots of good, hard working pols like the ones discussed here including President Obama, Joe Biden, both Clintons, Kerry and many others, als some good governors (Jerry Brown comes to mind), senators, and reps. They get a lot of disrespect though so at some point we need to figure out how to make politics respectable again. How, I don't know exactly, but sites like this where virtue is rewarded, if only digitally, might be part of the solution.
niyad
(113,582 posts)a lot who should be permanently unemployed at anything.
Oh I agree with you, and with Angela Davis, happy birthday to her too. What I mean is that the whole shrink-government-and-drown-it meme depends on a contempt of politicians that's as carefully cultivated as the rest of the pack of lies, like the one about Dems starting wars and Reps ending them. Used to hear that one all the time from my dad, lol. So I guess a bit part of the problem is just RW control of the media, and boy do they control a lot of it.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)True that, there are some real stinkers out there, for sure. But a lot of them really seem to believe in their mission, and gerrymandered safe districts to keep returning them, cognitive dissonance and all. Tough proposition.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)in Congress and their state legislatures.
niyad
(113,582 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)We are the change we seek. It is weak to blame "politicians" especially when we get to elect them.