How did the politicians get there? They didn’t fall out of the sky or phase in through some membrane. Majority of these politicians came from American homes, American families, American schools, American universities, and American businesses.
Sounds to me it’s not the politicians that suck, the public that elects some of these politicians are what suck.
Probably a little bit of both. I think Joe Biden (as an example) started his career in politics campaigning to keep schools segregated. Probably the people who voted for Joe Biden on his policy of school segregation are not thought of as being on the right side of history.
A lot of politicians also lie to get elected. Make promises to their voters and then fail to deliver on their promises. There are 100 senators in the United States. It’s very plausible that there are 100 highly intelligent sociopaths who lied and manipulated their way into political power in a population of 300million. I’m not saying that’s what happened, it’s just not at all far fetched of a theory. There is estimated to be 3-12million sociopaths in the United States (1-4% of the population). Some of those sociopaths will also be highly intelligent and able to gain power for themselves via a career in politics. In that scenario, do you blame the voters who were lied to and manipulated by a highly intelligent sociopath? Or do you blame the highly intelligent sociopath doing the lying and manipulating. Again I’m not saying that is what is happening in the USA, but it is a possibility. Certainly there is at least 1 politician who is purely in it for personal gain, who lied and manipulated his/her way into power.
Hmm, but at this point we’re voting for the politicians who have been hand-picked by politicians. It’s not like the public are given a choice. So yeah, I wouldn’t necessarily put all the blame on the public.
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u/Mendozena 5d ago
How did the politicians get there? They didn’t fall out of the sky or phase in through some membrane. Majority of these politicians came from American homes, American families, American schools, American universities, and American businesses.
Sounds to me it’s not the politicians that suck, the public that elects some of these politicians are what suck.