Posted on 06/26/2015 12:53:56 PM PDT by Jacquerie
How often at your workplace have you held your tongue out of fear of saying something that could get you fired? Are you willing to put your principles ahead of your income or pension or do you regularly “suck it up,” and save your muttering until you get home?
Everyone looks out for their interests. Read that again. You and I and everyone else naturally try to do that which best serves ourselves and families. It is called human nature and it has served mankind well since the Creation.
Our politicians are no different. They can’t be different, for as fellow human beings they are as imperfect as the rest of mankind.
Rare are the men/women who willingly risk all for free government principles. One exception is Michele Bachmann. I suspect she and her husband are still up to their eyeballs in debt because she wouldn’t cave to Speaker Boehner. Michele and Mr. Bachmann are the rare and notable exceptions.
Freeper posts overflow with diatribes against rinos, meaning those who campaign on conservative principles and soon go to the dark side and either do nothing to stop the accelerating tyranny or actually promote it.
First, we must understand that most of the chosen 435 of the House of Reps had to claw, grasp, climb their way up from humble beginnings. Does that sound familiar? Didn’t you have to do the same to achieve your level of success? They had to eat many a cr@p sandwich as they endured endless boring time on local school boards and county commissions and dealt with petty complaints from unreasonable constituents.
They are now in the House of Reps and they “made it.” In this heady environment most congressmen think they should be senators and most senators believe they should be president.
What happens to these otherwise good and upstanding people? Like anyone else, they respond in varying degrees to their (corrupt) surroundings. Go along to get along with party leadership and lots of extra power, money . . . are nearly guaranteed. They know their every public move and word is recorded and can be posted to the internet at any time. MSNBC, Politico, Salon, etc, are poised to exploit any unguarded moments. In this environment it makes perfect sense to shut up and avoid all controversy in and out of congress.
Despite the rhetoric at FreeRepublic, freepers themselves would respond in the same manner, and conduct themselves so as to continue their ascent in so-called public service. It is human nature. What you and I do in our workplaces is little different from the behavior of our politicians. It cannot be any other way!
We can admonish pubbies to stand up for the constitution all day and night. We can beat up rinos and blame them for the accelerating tyranny. It feels good. I occasionally take part in the sport myself. However, if we are to peacefully restore our previously FreeRepublic, we must come to grips as our Framers did with the fact that men respond to passion and self-interest far more often than reason. No matter where, in or out of government, personal aggrandizement trumps the greater good almost every time.
Since passions rule, how can they be turned toward the greater good? How can they be directed toward one of the declared purposes of our government, the general welfare?
So. Freepers are no better than the politicians in DC.
Good to know.
So it is hopeless
burn it down, burn it all down and let us start over
Cowardice is cowardice. I’ve quit good jobs because of crap. Get a spine. Cave in to libs and PC crap and you’ll take anything they shove up your ass. Take guns away from Jews? Sure. Make them wear gold stars on their clothes? Sounds resonable.
Cowards.
You are right, it is good to know.
When ‘money, the root of all evil’ takes over common sense and buys the politicians then I will voice my RINO concerns...and that is exactly what is happening today, along with the “Muslim Brotherhood” slob boy belongs to...
You can’t get fired from an elected office. Further when RINO go against their principles they are almost always going against the direct stated desires of their constituency making it more difficult to get themselves re-elected. Your metaphor is flawed at best.
Everyone in the world listens to the same radio station: WII-FM.
God granted you your freedom of speech. Who has authority to tell you different?
So did the signers of the Declaration of Independence. But then to them, principle was more important than personal convenience.
Sorry, no sale. I'm out of patience.
Is this an OPUS?/s
1. Sorry but if work demanded that I go against the Lord, yes, I would sacrifice my income.
2. These politicians swear to uphold the Constitution. Even if it is against their personal needs.
3. They also promise to represent us, their constituents, not themselves in office.
If they can’t do these things they should not bother to run for public office. You are correct. Not many people can put aside their personal desires. That is precisely why we only have 435 members of the House, 100 senators, 9 Supreme Court justices and one president out of 300 million + people.
There is no excuse you can make for the traitorous behavior of these sellouts.
IBTZ.
Seriosuly. Since when do you defend RINO’s and compare us FReepers to scum-wads in DC?
Sorry, no sale. I'm out of patience."
Ditto. Not one damn ounce of sympathy from me.
I agree. Nobody forces them to run for the job or to lie to their voters.
The only RINOS worth defending are spelled Rhinos. The others are no better than Democrats and often worse.
Sorry. I can't equate working a trade or a profession for a living with seeking out federal public office.
They know the requirements of the job when they *ask us* to please send them there. It's a blatant violation of the trust they ask us to put in them for the privilege of representing us.
-PJ
p.s. Ted Cruz just said on Hannity that the American people will start calling for an Article V convention.
What utter pap.
Conservatives operate on principle. I have walked away from fame and fortune for principle, and that many times. Principles, by definition, are ‘first things’, and cannot be moved. It’s the way of life, not a mere political slogan...
If you don’t understand that, then you are not Conservative, any more than those mealy-mouthed politicians in DC.
I quit a good job too, finally tiring of working in an office of Obama fanbois and grrls.
All it took was the gumption to say to myself, “OK. That’s enough.”
This vanity may be the most discouraging thing I’ve read on a bad day:
We’re all basically just dung beetles pushing around our balls of you-know-what with our hind legs, so we have to expect that our congressmen are sniveling, selfish, untrustworthy rodents.
I got fired for doing what was right.
I demand a representative in Congress willing to do the right thing, even at personal expense. You can settle for scumbags I will not.
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