re: #197 ObserverArt

There is no magic wand of course. I’ll take whatever can be done within the law. My hope is for something that teaches this country a lesson that last for at least a generation. A lesson on how to begin to understand politics and civics. A lesson that is hard on media like Fox News, and shysters like Alex Jones.

Yes, I know there will always be a segment of America that will fall for the BS, but elections are fought in the middle ground of the undecideds and the lazy. Maybe a good hard lesson touches the middle and makes them wake the hell up to the importance of actually understanding civics and politics.

You are a mere seatholder if you are not placing the best interest of the public above your own political interests. You may be an effective politician who can win elections who then is completely unethical as a statesman.

If you have no self perspective to protect you from your own arrogance, megalomania, misguided beliefs and distorted judgments, what holds you in check?

You let your political interests supplant and surpass the noble mission of “representing” whether it be the branch of governing, legislating, or judging.

Where are the principled politicians acting in the best interest of their constituents, placing those interests ahead of your own?. As a rep or senator, your constituents are not only the people who voted for you. Or even all the people in your district / state. Maybe there is a slight weighting toward them; maybe not. You were elected to be one of a group of 100 or 435. Those two groups then act as a unity for *all* the people in all districts and states.

Where are the principled politicians?