[Krimel] Public [ly financed] elections [Craig] It's bad enough to pay the salaries of the clowns we elect. I don't want to pay for their job hunting expenses too.
[Arlo] I'm not sure what the utopic solution would be, but at present we have a system that favors political sleeziness and money wrangling over trying to push the wisest and noblest leader in our midst to the top. There is no candy-coating it, only the wealthy have any chance to get elected, or those whose main skill is in "ass kissing" in order to fundraise the millions and millions of dollars required to campaign. Our system does not raise leaders to the top, it raises wealthy buffoons, panderers and capistocrats. It is truly and endlessly astonishing to me that in this, one of the greatest nations, our choice for leader has become nothing more than the lesser of two mediocre, unimpressive and otherwise unwise but politically saavy phonies. It is what our system promotes, it is what we as consumers demand, and it is all we will have in the near to medium future. Listen to your words... "bad enough to pay the salaries of the clowns"... this is what we get from the "best of all nations"?? Public funding of elections may help ensure that honest, wise, principled leaders, who may not have the stores of wealth nor the sleezy saaviness to pander for dollars, have a fair shake come election time. But this is only one piece in a large jigsaw puzzle, one in which we play an active role in deserving what we get. If we get "clowns", Craig, then it is because we deserve them. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
