That's a textbook definition of politics and maybe what politics used to be.
Politics is now about lies and deceit, stripping away inalienable rights, while telling people it's inevitable and for their own good. Politics is the machine where your lessors are promoted into positions of power to make decisions for you despite you not wanting neither the individual to represent you nor the decisions they make for you.
The Uniparty offers corrupt candidates in order to maintain the charade of elections and freedom. Kamala Harris is sitting as vice president despite irrefutable evidence that she's not eligible; she's not a natural born citizen since her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born.
-Court judges refuse to correct clear violations of citizens' rights to keep and bear arms.
-Court judges violated Californians' rights when Californians' voted to refuse funding for illegal alien invaders.
-Court judges wrote law in violation of the Constitution when they legalized abortion in the United States despite The People not wanting it.
-The list goes on.
“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.