“Do politicians work for us or we them?”
What does that have to do with the argument ? They work for us, settled point. They are also very loosely accountable to us, also settled point, that the nature of the democratic beast. Now, what is YOUR responsibility with respect to said politicians ?
“If I’m damned for that, then I’m in honorable company.”
Whether you are damned or not is up to a higher power. But anger or dissatisfaction with your politicians is an unwise and immature basis on which to make voting decisions. One must view the options available and judge the likely effect of your choice in the broad context.
“They work for us, settled point. “
I should think it’s clear now that *they* don’t consider that settled.
“Now, what is YOUR responsibility with respect to said politicians ?
Hold them accountable at the polls.
“Whether you are damned or not is up to a higher power. But anger or dissatisfaction with your politicians is an unwise and immature basis on which to make voting decisions.”
It worked well enough for the Founding generation.
“One must view the options available and judge the likely effect of your choice in the broad context.”
Let’s see, vote for the Marxist or his allegedly-Republican waterboy. Choices, choices. In the end, same end.
Righteous anger and dissatisfaction is all that is left to save this country - provided it can be saved. I fear that there has been far too much pragmatism for that by this point. When you continue to repeat an action expecting a different result, you end up where we are now. John Quincy Adams was right on the subject of “voting”.