| DarthMetalliCube said: And sry to Warren supporters, it's really not my intention to start anything here. Warren actually has some decent qualities too and she'd at least be a distant fourth choice for me after Tulsi>Yang>Bernie heh.. I'm just frankly tired of all the dumb, unfair baseless smears I see such a smart and well-meaning candidate like Tulsi gets in the media, Twitter, etc. I just don't get it and it angers me. You start to see why there are so few decent people in politics as they all seem to get slagged the most. |
Speak for yourself. One person's "decent person in politics" is another person's smear target, and vice versa. You yourself in that post put Bernie under Tulsi and even Yang as if he's somehow less progressive than them, and you've smeared him in the past just because he felt it necessary to oppose Trump at all costs. Trump is corruption incarnate, and an existential threat to democracy itself, and all Bernie did was see that and try to do something about it, or at least not help Trump by splitting the anti-Trump vote. And you smear him for that. Bernie is my "one of the few decent people in politics" and he gets smeared all the time, from all sides, be it neoliberal, progressive, or...whatever you are, centrist libertarian I guess? I'm just saying, you're not innocent of smearing "decent people in politics" either. We all have different opinions, and that includes on who is a good politician and who isn't, who is beyond reproach, who could be better, who is the absolute worst, etc. Such is the nature of politics, unfortunately.
As for why there aren't more good people in politics, it's because good people tend not to be power hungry, and if they strive for power at all, it's so they can give it away to others. That, and the amount of cynicism and apathy in the world mean that no one would believe a person's good intentions if they saw them and no one would lift a finger to help them even if they did believe them, even enough to go out and vote.
