Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday that America “is not sending their best and brightest” to represent them in Congress. “Sometimes you literally just can’t believe like, these people are mak…
No shit. Political success does not required being the best and brightest. It requires being the loudest with the deepest pockets
What a world we might live in if all the politicians even understood electricity and the electron.
Merkel was a scientist and it showed
And the internet.
What do you mean? It’s a series of tubes.
Please, no flash photography. You’ll harm the internet. https://youtu.be/Vywf48Dhyns?si=n9FQZnkw2Pr8XAyQ
fyi, the ?si= part of that link is a tracker. Google will know who you referred to that video
So then use this one. Or just not use YouTube. 🤷🏻♂️ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vywf48Dhyns&pp=ygUTaXQgY3Jvd2QgdGhlIHNwZWVjaA%3D%3D
what? just a heads up. you can strip the tracker out like this: https://youtu.be/Vywf48Dhyns
But instead we live in a world where the politicians know what plants crave.
What do plants crave?
Brawndo! But I like money.
Well, he is not wrong. They send politicians there instead of people who actually had a job, who had to work for a living, who actually have experience of being a normal citizen.
I for one don’t think there is a single thing wrong with the idea of a professional politician. The problem is the legalized bribery that comes in the form of campaign donations.
While bribery is one of the big problems, it is often based on the fact that a politician has been around (and groomed) for a long time. That’s one reason why a professional politician is a danger to society. The other point is that most politicians have never experienced real life.
Look at the US: guys from rich homes, having studied law and politics at prestige universities where they started building up on political contacts, and have been nothing but politician since then. Some have had political offices for 40, 50 years. And not a single hour of real life experience.
Sadly it’s a reflection of the values Americans hold. In that sense, we reap what we sow.
We certainly don’t want the ignorant populist candidate like Donald which was a knee-jerk reaction to the very sentiment you raise here (not to be confused with an educated populist like Bernie).
I think, “dAE hAtE pOliTiCiaNS?” misdirects our focus, when the real focus is: why do we keep electing these people? Why do we think businessmen and lawyers are the apex of society and not, say, teachers and scientists?
Talking about politicians generally misses the fact that the vast majority of our problems for decades has stemmed from one single party and one single archaic ideology.
Agreed. If you have extremely inexperienced politicians, your end result is that they are easily manipulated by whatever or whoever gets to whisper in their ear, like said lobbyists.
Like the representative from Nebraska’s 2nd, the coward Don Bacon.
He was an air force general prior to running for office, so I imagine he had a spine. He tipped well and was nice in person, but then he ran for office, and is now the biggest coward a man could ever see.
A general? Well, up there, it’s 99% politics and bureaucracy, and you don’t need a spine there already.
The scary thing is, they just might be.
As an american, I can confirm these are not our best and brightest. The best and brightest have either started leaving or they are seduced by big business and paid absurd (for working class) salaries to ignore the problems of the country.
I misread it. I thought he was saying the Repubs weren’t sending their best and brightest.
Alternatively: They are 100% not interested in holding a position of power and dealing with beaurocratic drama garbage nonsense (which makes them objectively a better choice than the people we get)
You just wrote “engineer” in so many words.
So they ARE smart
Our political system is excellent in weeding out almost anyone who genuinely wants to make a difference and leaving you with the people who are simply the most personally ambitious.
They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.
Not even sending the averages or the good enoughs.
Just the most racist and homophobic. We are REALLY good at sending them to Congress.
I love this guy.
They don’t want the best and brightest
I mean… he’s part of congress, is he not?
You’re missing the point, and aside from that Fetterman is far more intelligent than the nutcases that are Magic The Gathering, Boebert, Gaetz, Jordan, Cruz. Not hard to tell.
OH. I got it. so everyone BUT him is stupid. Got it.
Again, you’re missing the point of his statement but it doesn’t seem you’re thinking critically or with reason.
So enlighten me. How is he not calling himself a fucking idiot along with the rest of congress? Cause I agree with that point. Did “America” not send him to congress? Was he appointed?
If you read the article and the rest of his statement instead of the title, I think you would understand Fetterman viewpoint. You’re completely misdirecting yourself and too stubborn to read between the lines.
I read the article. He self owned. End of story.
Good job, man. Whatever helps you sleep at night lmaoooo
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
- Plato
I guess things haven’t changed that much.
Tbh, I’ve thought about it, who hasn’t. But don’t think I have the money to run a campaign. It should be illegal to use your own funds to campaign, let people just use an amount of public funds for the purpose and that’s it, we all get the same “free speech” instead of some having more “free speech” than others depending on their wallet size. (Fuck Citizens United)
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
That’s the crux of the matter. If you want the job, you shouldn’t be allowed to have it. It would be better to make qualified people be forced to do it on a frequently rotating basis. Kinda like a draft for educated, moral citizens.
Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck.
Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens.
This is the best we can do, folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.
Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe… it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like… the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: ‘The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.’
-George Carlin
He missed a nuance. A certain type of person wants power, is successful at getting it, and good at keeping it. It’s the worst of the worst.
It is the logic of plunder. Our businesses breed such individuals.
I mean… Bit of a stretch but hear me out… Vikings conquered the British Isles. They led the colonization of the world. The waspyest wasps came to the States. Their “best” have consolidated power since. That’s who runs capitalism now.
Fetterman is the Betterman.
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Nothing will ever get done in this political climate.
Smart people don’t make good puppets for corporations and foreign governments.
