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Post by mullahpaloozer on May 12, 2016 9:58:11 GMT -4
some POLITICAL WISDOM ... enjoy
If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
~Jay Leno~
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~Henry Cate, VII~
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office
~Aesop~
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
~Will Rogers~
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev~
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Clarence Darrow~
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
~Author unknown~
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton~
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer~
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
~Adlai Stevenson, 1952~
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~ Tex Guinan~
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle~
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson~
There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Congressmen.
~Will Rogers~
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Post by mullahpaloozer on May 19, 2016 21:48:13 GMT -4
"... the evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones."
Ahhhhhhhhhh, politics ... I smell the stench.
It has been said many times by many great minds that the advent of man was enabled and fostered positively by a bonding factor often referred to as 'common sense'. Something we would all possess. Unfortunately there are times when one could make argument otherwise.
On a regularly scheduled occurrence, we subject ourselves to the stress and anxieties of choosing those we feel most comfortable representing those pursuits and values upon which we wear as our own. We call it the Electoral Process.
We find comfort in shared snippets and the enablement of feeling a commonly shared strength and power that feeds upon our hopes and fears. We choose to become 'birds of a feather' ... one of many ... a member of the 'tribe' where we find comfort amongst those of like kind. It is there we abandon our individuality for the comforts of inclusion.
But it's not our fault. Each and every moment we are bombarded by auditory and visual enticements and promises that seem to fit our agendas. We are witnesses of our own deception. We unknowingly experience sensory overload. We fore go objectivity. Our primal objective is self survival. The insecurities of individuality lead us into the masses. We are afraid to be alone. We argue and justify our reactions to and subsequent actions of our fears by an attempt to convince ourselves that we are not afraid.
And as the bonding effect takes hold, we find an imaginary strength in commonality that voraciously feeds upon our shared fears. The weakness we share leads us to lash out to that which is easiest and most readily available , often that which we perceive as inadequate or inferior; race ... sex ... religion ... political association.
We are but human beings, imperfections and all. We must be mindful of such defects and attempt with all our will to choose wisely those and that which we choose to brand ourselves.
Good luck to us all.
IMO
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