Friday, April 05, 2013

Waaa! Waaa! Politicians are all rich! Waaa! Why do we elect them?

Reeling it in from yesterday's philosophical musings, today I bring you a more practical topic. I've been trying and forgetting to write this entry FOR MONTHS!  So I'm thrilled to be doing it and I hope it's been worth the wait...

Yes.  Politicians ARE rich.  And so often it is asked why do we keep electing these rich cocksuckers who have nothing in common with us as a people and basically don't give a shit about us.  They don't care.  So why? Why do we do it over and over again?  Consider this example:

Dave is the primary mechanic at the Chevron down the street from my house.  Dave is handsome, funny, charismatic, and an excellent mechanic.  Dave is also very bright, well informed about local issues and their factors, and has a very practical but deeply insightful approach to problem solving.  Dave would be a great leader; An ideal State Assemblyman for our district.

Then why do we always elect that Nat Yesrough guy? (By the way, that's "For Satan" backwards.)  Who doesn't even live in our district?  Dave would beat that guy in a heartbeat!  Maybe he would.  But Dave, like sooooo many of us, lives paycheck to paycheck.  If he got sick for one or two weeks, his finances would be devastated.  So how the hell is he supposed to take off a few months to campaign?  How is he supposed to do the initial marketing of himself in order to then raise funds for the campaign?

He isn't.  And he won't.  Because you have to have some serious funds if you want to have the necessary resources and free time to market yourself prior to even having a real campaign of any sort.

THAT'S WHY POLITICIANS ARE ALL RICH.  BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO BE.  IF THEY WEREN'T, THEY'D HAVE TO BE AT WORK, NOT OUT TRYING TO BECOME A POLITICIAN

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