Not very likely, most politicians are similarly deluded and incapable of thinking otherwise… this one is absolutely not an exception
Hmm. I’ve never met a real politician.
Its for the best.
I have - lots, far far too many
If you do and they shake your hand, and then say good morning or good afternoon, check your watch.
- to check the time
- to check that you still have a watch.
:evil:
Then wash your hands - sound advice even pre-covid
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They’re like flat earthers, They only talk to the unbelievers at conventions and the like. The rest of the time they huddle together basking in the warm glow of their own corruption.
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Dude you are so fcking full of yourself its amazing. Why bother coming to a forum to have discourse ?
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Like any politician, he cant take either criticsim, or the fear that we may realise their profession is as useless as a hairdresser.
What did hairdressers ever do to you?
Cut my hair?
Ok, hairdressers might be slightly more useful than politicians.
It was a kind of a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference, but I figured no one would know what a Telephone Sanatiser was
Not useless then.
Society wont exactly grind to a halt if my hair gets longer though.
I should have said Chefs
Politicians, by the very act of showing up to work, make the world a worse place.
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This doesn’t happen often, at least not in the United States. Whether you’re in session or not, you’re still representing the people who elected you and it’s a 24/7 job. You never get a break or a vacation from it.
Party whips almost always provide those who have legitimate issues with specific legislation with a pass on voting against the party if they have to in order to get reelected. Unless it comes down to a squeaker vote on a key priority. In those situations there are other ways that folks can use, including matched pairs, to make sure they aren’t screwing their team and their constituents if there’s no way to reconcile the two.
It’s very hard to solve a “problem” with a single law. Most of the biggest problems that get people angry enough to run can’t be solved easily. And even if someone runs on a specific issue and that’s their biggest problem, they now have adopted a whole host of other stuff that has to get done that they have to be aware of. Single issue candidates make, in my opinion, bad elected officials.
Yes, because the decisions are political ones - what gets the resources, how the resources are obtained, etc. It’s different in the UK where every cabinet minister is a member of Parliament - that’s not the case here, and typically you have a hard time getting a political appointee confirmed if they don’t have some kind of practical experience in the area they’re supposed to be in charge of.
It’s typically the other way around - a small handful of people hold the keys to the job, and you need to kiss those folks asses or they’ll take the job away from you.
My livelihood doesn’t depend on me believing that - I could agree with you and I’d still get paid. I just think that it’s amusing that, in politics, experience is a bad thing, and the people who actually do the work daily apparently know less about it than folks who don’t. In no other profession does that happen. It’s amusing.
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You realize that there’s very little point in a discussion with a career politician? Normal people communicate and discuss to exchange ideas and perhaps convince the other of your ideas.
It’s not that a career politician doesn’t understand your pov, perhaps he even agrees with you on that point but he’s never going to admit it. Partly because it doesn’t benefit him and partly because he enjoys the talking, scheming and deflecting.
The only way you’re ever going to convince one if it’s a direct and obvious advantage to him personally while he’s able to get away with it.
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The funny part of all of those surveys is if you ask “do you trust your political party” the numbers are always high. And if they ask “do you trust your member of Congress/Senator” the numbers are typically higher than the whole, and they’re even higher if it’s a person of the same party as you.
The moral of the story is that nobody trusts the institution, and they all want to throw somebody else’s bums out. They like their bums, and their party. Which is why it’s possible for incumbents to keep getting reelected, even if 17% of people trust government.
Politician answer: “If you’re buying, I’ll agree with anything you say.”
Real answer: “Hopefully you’ll learn something over the beer and both of us come away with a new perspective.”
Hi, I’m an actual person with an actual name, and I’m more than willing to change my mind if somebody presents a well thought out argument.
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This isn’t me being full of myself. This is me being honest. I’m sorry if that offends you, but it doesn’t make it less true.
I came here to respond to the original question as to why Innominate got elected, and I’ve been here ever since.