Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday that America ā€œis not sending their best and brightestā€ to represent them in Congress. ā€œSometimes you literally just canā€™t believe like, these people are makā€¦

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I for one donā€™t think there is a single thing wrong with the idea of a professional politician. The problem is the legalized bribery that comes in the form of campaign donations.

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      Agreed. If you have extremely inexperienced politicians, your end result is that they are easily manipulated by whatever or whoever gets to whisper in their ear, like said lobbyists.

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      While bribery is one of the big problems, it is often based on the fact that a politician has been around (and groomed) for a long time. Thatā€™s one reason why a professional politician is a danger to society. The other point is that most politicians have never experienced real life.

      Look at the US: guys from rich homes, having studied law and politics at prestige universities where they started building up on political contacts, and have been nothing but politician since then. Some have had political offices for 40, 50 years. And not a single hour of real life experience.

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        Sadly itā€™s a reflection of the values Americans hold. In that sense, we reap what we sow.

        We certainly donā€™t want the ignorant populist candidate like Donald which was a knee-jerk reaction to the very sentiment you raise here (not to be confused with an educated populist like Bernie).

        I think, ā€œdAE hAtE pOliTiCiaNS?ā€ misdirects our focus, when the real focus is: why do we keep electing these people? Why do we think businessmen and lawyers are the apex of society and not, say, teachers and scientists?

        Talking about politicians generally misses the fact that the vast majority of our problems for decades has stemmed from one single party and one single archaic ideology.