The conniving politician:
To the cynical politicians are corrupt and evil statement I always ask...
Why attack politicians? We live in a Republic. These politicians represent constituents. If they didn’t they would get kicked out. Money is a pretty big constituent right now–which is why I support election/campaign reform. But you also have elite opinion and the general opinion of the public at large. So politicians are evil only in the sense that the interests of their constituents are evil. Why abstract away from that... and just blame the guilty parties. Ad hominem attacks on politicians makes people more cynical about government–there by less likely to participate, there by the likelihood for corruption grows larger. The only true critique of corruption in government is your own participation in the political process.
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Jim Nichols
A Speculative Fiction
www.JimNichols4.com
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