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Comment by Ineedavodka2019 at 17/11/2021 at 15:53 UTC
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I feel for you. I am also a local politician in a Republican district. (I ran as Repub but was never affiliated with them. I’m actually a Bernie fan.) Our area is small and rural but I worry when it all hits the fan who will come for me and my family? I fear things will get bad. It’s pretty scary and my hope for a dem win in 2022 is low. Between this and global climate issues, I worry for my kids future and what will happen.
Comment by mike_b_nimble at 17/11/2021 at 17:44 UTC
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Firstly, our system tends to select for people who want power. People who want power and like exercising it tend to not be the people who should be doing it.
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
-Douglas Adams