Skepticism as a New Way of Life

The Epoch Times ^ | February 25, 2022 | Joakim Book

[Jeff Chandler]

Skepticism, hell. I’m cynic.

[aquila48]

“That’s a textbook definition of politics and maybe what politics used to be.”

Still is.

You see, individual politicians THEMSELVES have their own self interests (power and privilege) that they want to protect and so they also form their own little cliques - the UNIPARTY.

So what you are pointing out is that your regular Joe is easily duped by false promises and flowety language and that we stupidly elect people that lie about having our best interest at heart.

In other words, at the end of the day it’s our fault for not being sufficiently careful about who we elect to represent our interests.

There’s also the fact that even people who initially go to Washington genuinely wanting to represent their constituency, frequently get co-opted or enamored with their new found power and privileges and to protect those interests they joing the party that does, ie, the uniparty.

So, what’s the solution:
- term limits
- give them as little power and money necessary to do their jobs
- limit their legislative sessions to one or two months out of the year. The rest of the time they should hold regular jobs. We don’t need more laws.

More ideas are welcome.

[Rurudyne]

If I had the spare change I’d design and wear my own space opera armor and tell folks I was masking up.

[ExGeeEye]

A cynic is a skeptic with experience.

[T.B. Yoits]

There needs to be recall procedures in place for every elected position.

There also needs to be "None of the Above" on ballots. No more picking the lesser of two evils. The party bosses will have to find candidates who can at least beat "None of the Above".

Any agency that has to be sued to release public information needs to have members charged and fined, if not removed from their jobs.