re: #144 Charleston Chew

What I was trying to communicate was that politicians don’t fall from the sky into office, they are elected by having the support of a great many people. Not everyone, of course, and they can be opposed by many people, but they do what they do in office because someone else wanted them to. They are conduits for the desires of others. And when they are deceptive, it is often because the people they represent have unrealistic, impossible, or incompatible desires. Solely blaming politicians makes them into a scapegoat.

Even now when most people understand the seriousness of our debt situation people still want their personal favorite programs left alone.