Anyone who might really solve the problems that plague our country will never be popular enough to be elected.
As much as most Americans claim to want a balanced budget, a real solution for world peace and equality for all, when push comes to shove they tend to vote for the things that please them more personally.
Personal agendas sabotage big decisions. That is why we elect people to make those decisions for us. I suspect our system was never perfect, but that it worked a little better in the beginning than it does now.
With all of the electronic media making every promise, smile, taunt and charismatic appeal available to everyone who can vote, we eliminate the small town knowledge that illuminated a man’s footprints back in the earliest days of our country. Most, if not all, of our presidential candidates are politicians, men whose job it is to be liked.
Honestly, the more people who like you, the less likely you are to be standing on solid ground when it comes to unpopular topics.
We’ve dug in so deep now I don’t know what the solution is.
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