We used to have officials that would tell the truth. Ones that had scruples. My mom (rest her soul) used to say that while there were Democrat/Republican differences at election time, they settled down and did what was best for the country. I believe that’s why we won WWII in part.
I later remember how Nixon was dogged out of office over 18 minutes by two of the biggest no-talent word-hacks that ever walked this earth. Nixon bowed to propriety and resigned, later redeeming himself with initiatives to China.
Fast forward to Billy “BJ” Clinton and the meaning of “is” and his enlistment of 400 “Constitutional Scholars” who in a 1998 NYT ad that stated a bl@w job (paraphrasing) isn’t a high crime or misdemeanor (totally omitting the lies to a Grand Jury) and we have the politics of “just drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer part and see what whores come up” Bimbo Eruption Hillary and James Carville’s meme.
Fast forward farther to a pResident who won’t publish any of his records, the IRS, Lois Lerner, the IRS IG and whatever pathetic excuse they have for oversight, NSA, FBI, EPA, BLM et al and we have (in my opinion) EVERY Obama-appointed official in this government lying out their ass on cue. I just flat out don’t believe any of them.
“We used to have officials that would tell the truth. Ones that had scruples.”
Gaffer, Your time line parallels mine. I was born in 1940 so I’ve seen what has to be the best of America metamorphing into a nation of Anti-American whiners who are shiftless, lazy and expect to be cared for their entire lives. One thing is certain, it cannot continue if this nation expects to survive. WWII was the last war we fought to win. Just look what our politicians have left in Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia and the Middle East! They have pissed away both our human and monetary treasure and they don’t have $hit left to show for it! God help us if the Chinks or the Russians decide it’s time to do something really big before Obozo leaves office.
They put skin color over competence as evidenced by this latest “not so wise Latina” who resigned today as Dir of CMP. But unlike Nixon, she had to be forced out of her office because she “embarrassed” Obama and not because she was simply incompetent. All you have to do is listen to her for 30 seconds to know she was unfit at the outset for that position. And to cap it all off, as you point out, virtually everyone lies, even the one’s that don’t want to because they are in fear of loosing their jobs if they tell the truth.
Trump is an unlikely candidate for president, but unlike the rest of them, he doesn’t really give a $hit what anyone thinks or that he has to “craft” what he says to “please” some wealthy POS who expects to manage him in office like an effing puppet on a string ( like our current president). We are on the cusp of failure as a nation. This next election may well be the tipping point. I’m too old for it to matter much, but I do worry about my children and their children and what we’ve managed to leave them.
It's also why the PTB are pining for war or some other "common enemy" to rally the public behind.