"A Politician's True Beliefs" Disclosure

The further away the package is, the less it stinks.

Our systems of representation DO NOT grow as the population does - check the reality of this aspect in your county and state, then know full well Congress has been stagnant for 100 years, except for the last two states. The People everywhere are underrepresented, and more so each year. Nationwide we've gone from 1 in 30K to now 20 times that.

Thus, around 11,000 reps should be there in Congress for the People - each paid less.

So, with more packages around and closer too, the stinky ones will be tossed away and sooner when we consider that the pace of life is faster these days and terms must be shorter too. No need to limit the number of terms, just limit the length of the term. Yearly elections will rid us of the stinky ones much faster.

I prefer to speculate on the conspiracy between Western World Leaders to actively shift the public's whole fabric of life to mirror the 'benign' (they believe) Chinese / Communist model of social control. They are clearly sold on the concept and their group/collective efforts show that the shift is well underway. The elite now dismiss any form of true democracy as witnessed in the US/UK and elsewhere in the West: They ignore the publics wishes - they do virtually as they want whether it be contrary to the public desire and/or, in many instances, even common sense. In the UK Boris dons a green suit virtually every day in his quest to dismantle the economy. Ditto USA as I see it. Sorry to have to say, but whether or not the principle is detested by the majority or not, only a revolution will halt and reverse the steep decline. The sickness has to stop.

Excellent narrative. Politics is the highest pollutant of our societies. pity, many seldom realize the harm politicians are doing to our societies and lives. A politician thinks about the next general election and not about the next generation.

By their nature, all politicians are devious, so politics is devious. Statesmen are those politicians who can, from time to time, climb out of their self-centered skins and do something for the good of others, seeking nothing for themselves. Our problem is that we are led by far too many politicians and far too few statesmen. How can we tell the difference? As one judge has said "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it".

The Saudi's are led by thugs; money and power is their only driving force. Biden must bend a knee to try and get oil prices down; our oil companies are making triple the profits they normally get and they could care less about the rest of us. Our politicians are powerless to stop them, so we get massive inflation. Instead of blaming the oil oligarchs who we really have no control over, we blame the politicians, who really can't do anything about oil prices, but who we can identify and vote out of office; but replace them with more clowns, I meant clones.

Iran was headed to a bomb because it just cheats. It has an agenda different from ours. It can, and does lie to our face, so there is nothing that our politicians or statesmen can do; except to see if a scene can be set for Israel to try and solve this problem we all have; but then the U.N. will get to blame Israel for solving the problem which everyone else should have dealt with, because that is what the U.N. is geared for.

Same old, same old.

Yes, voters should study the track records of political candidates. But historically the risk of putting an unfit public servant into office has been no cause for major concern, because of re-elections. Now, however, we must face up to two much more serious recent trends that political scientists and pundits don't seem inclined to focus on. In recent years, nearly all legislators have thrown aside any belief that they are morally and ethically obligated to vote according to their own, individual, consciously held beliefs. Secondly, we have been infused with an ideology that voting is about the voter. Constitutionally, in a society wanting to maintain freedom, voting MUST be about the ironclad certain and unquestioned power of the civically motivated, able, and active contingent of the citizen body politic to easily and peacefully remove an unfit public servant from office, replacing him with someone who hopefully will better serve the long-range needs of the country. We have lost this necessary solid citizens' efficacious power by insisting upon and creating a myriad of voting complications: Early voting, late voting, absentee voting, overseas voting, machine voting, mail-in voting, mail-out ballots; citizens' delivery of ballots, drop-box collection, multiple language ballots, automatic voter registration, non-picture ID validation, etc. This has rightfully led many to believe that USA politics are more corrupt than what's found in a banana republic.

This is why I say the majority of elected officials above the grade of dog catcher are liars. The republicans are just better liars because they have to convince people they're not as rotten as the democrats.

Maybe its merely one more sorry example of the human condition - that politicians of any stripe are seldom what they would have us believe they are. Take the U.S. Congress (PLEASE!), most first and second termers are pretty idealistic and aren't "tuned in" enough yet to work for anything else but the interests of their constituents. Ah, but if they get reelected a third, fourth, etc. time, they've learned where the sources of money and power are (have we ever run across a rep or senator who's been reelected a few times who's NOT rich?). Money that they get from lobbyists, insider trading and other scams over and above their salaries rightfully belongs to the American taxpayers who are dumb or lazy enough to keep voting for them.
Bottom Line: the US Capitol is anything but the "peoples' house". It's a classic Den Of Thieves

A novel thought to the world we live in, most politicians with very few exceptions should have been dumped in the trash can a long time ago

Acquisition of weapons of warfare by Iran and the demise of U.S. ability to wage peace is a certainty. The Bible predicts it. The only question is when that will happen. It appears that what used to be a distant future event is more advanced by the current U.S. president by multiple subversive (to the U.S.A.) decisions involving ecology, economics, military support/directives and tentative (rather than decisive) intervention between warring nations having the effect of amplifying (and broadening into society) the damages thru prolongation of the current conflict. And these moves encourage kinetic hostilities from rival nations as well. Any U.S. politician that is worth his salt will be unlikely to run for office and also unlikely to win given the current cultural values.

Excellent article. This also reflects what is happening in Britain. Boris Johnson the Prime Minister is often accused of lying in order to deflect the people from the reality of what's actually going on. Britain voted out of the EU with the intention to become an independent country once more. We could then, (apparently) control our borders. This isn't the case and Britain's shores are being invaded by many thousands of Muslims fleeing the warzone which is the safe country of France! A crazy situation as the illegal immigrants are then housed in Hotels fed, and issued a phone with credit and pocket money. All at taxpayers' expense, when many British people are struggling to feed their families and fill up their cars as well as the skyrocketing energy bills. Boris Johnson doesn't appear to care what's happening to our country, we already house about 40,000 Muslims with terrorist intent. We are being betrayed by two-faced lying politicians, they are building up serious trouble for the future by the actions they are taking. There are homeless people with nowhere to live, thousand upon thousand waiting to be housed and be able to access treatment from a Doctor and yet the government do nothing to prevent illegal Muslim immigrants from jumping the queue. Many of our own people don't even get considered for hotel accommodation. British culture won't exist in a couple more decades, it'll be a branch of Islam.

Pretty good comparo.
Let me add a few thoughts.
Check the ingredients. Are they rancid? Wholesale? Foreign? Organic?
And even after all this and that, is it something you want to eat?
Or will government shove it up or down the orifice of its picking?