If only more public servants had the character they used to. Now it’s all about what you can get away with. It’s about cheating the system, not respecting the system as a good and just governor for all of us.
“If only more public servants had the character they used to”
Again, I can only tell you from my limited experience growing up, but there was a certain demeanor that the judges we knew had, they were generally reserved, but very intelligent and reverent of their job - they never seemed to take their positions for granted or ever flaunt it. If anything, they shied away from using their appointments to personal gain in anyway.
I’ll tell you one thing that has struck me that differentiates those judges I knew growing up and the public servants today. Almost to a person, those judges served in the military and many saw combat. The Chief Judge was a Marine in the South Pacific during WWII, the number two (my best friend’s father) earned a Silver Star in Korea, my father worked his way through college on an AF ROTC scholarship, and while he never saw combat, served an additional 27 years in the ANG after his four in the AF, finally retiring as a full bird.
The point being those people fought for our freedom - how many people would serve in Congress if one of the criteria was to have experience fighting for this country?