01-13-2022, 06:15 PM
I prefer that politicians win elections for doing real good in a district and not for following the Party Line of out-of-state interests. Earmarks allowed moderate Democrats to hold Senate seats in some very rural states by delivering farm subsidies and some desirable projects. In the place of pols like those we now have those who have been accepting political "Kochaine" for expounding on the sick idea that no human suffering can ever be in excess so long as it serves the power, indulgence, and gain of economic elites. Such an ideology is consistent with a fascistic regime that entrenches crony capitalism and condemns anyone weakly-connected to that elite to personal despair.
When politics serves constituents instead of out-of-district interests bankrolling their campaigns, politics becomes more pragmatic and less polarized. That's how things used to be, and the current paradigm is no improvement.
When politics serves constituents instead of out-of-district interests bankrolling their campaigns, politics becomes more pragmatic and less polarized. That's how things used to be, and the current paradigm is no improvement.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.