Buckwheat wrote:
IMO - This is why we have such poor candidates for public office. All of the people with Wisdom, Character and Honesty don't want to serve their country in elected office.
Nope.
The reason is that no matter how honest a man may be, they are flawed. And people who are mostly honest knows that, no matter how bad the flaws of others may be, there is shame in having flaws.
Which leaves the doors open for the creeps - who have no shame or conscience - to drive out the honest men. When you're used to wallowing in sh*t, the stench doesn't bother you. But someone who doesn't wallow in sh*t, quickly recoils especially when the creeps are throwing sh*t in all directions.
And, when said sh*t-wallower offers to give you free "stuff," some people are more than willing to take it, and hope they can wash the sh*t off when they get it home. Because, despite the fact that the stuff you got is covered in sh*t, and the guy you got it from wallows in sh*t, it is still "free stuff." And some people with put up with just about anyone or anything just to get free "stuff."
Unfortunately, the only way you're going to take back your government from the creeps is to wallow in the same sh*t they often do, and drown them in their own sh*t pile. Not many people have the stomach for that.
In some ways it is like responding to one of RICKAMAVEN's posts.