The End

[Nick87]

ALL? What type of professional help do you recommend?

Optometrist.

 

[ismith]

It all boils down to the left being evil and the right being differently abled.

 

[BrentD]

True, but it's awfully easy to do...

I'd love to see a different system, with the capability of putting up better candidates. It's a tough nut to crack, though... How do you get politicians who bought into the 2-party model to pass legislation that weakens the 2-party model? And the risks are so real... (well demonstrated by the apparent choice we have this time around).

We can't expect to do that until we change the way we vote. There is no more primitive means of voting than what we do here.

 

[ismith]

Like Hunter? Probably got his son confused with his political rivals. Just a thought but maybe his political rivals should actually try not to break the law.

Hunter, the guy who calls dear old daddy “Pedo Pete” and “The Big Guy”? That Hunter?

 

[noharleyyet]

I agree. I still don't overlook the years of her demonization by GOP, in correct anticipation of her ascendancy to the nomination. That is the way our sausage of leadership is made, has been for centuries.

Demonized by a bunch of deplorables who couldn't or wouldn't grasp that it was her turn...all those skids greased in vain. Do you believe every voter who voted against her were illegally manipulated. Look duds, Trump is a narcissistic POS, no argument...but wasn't he once the darling of New York liberal celebs and Democratic Pols until he got hooked on the ultimate attention high and limitless grift of politics and waded into their pond.

 

[cgasner1]

Left or right really don’t matter till we see some term limits all the way around

 

[ismith]

Left or right really don’t matter till we see some term limits all the way around

How so? The people actually running this country aren’t elected.

 

[Bullbrl]

Left or right really don’t matter till we see some term limits all the way around

Amen

 

[BuzzH]

Demonized by a bunch of deplorables who couldn't or wouldn't grasp that it was her turn...all those skids greased in vain. Do you believe every voter who voted against her were illegally manipulated. Look duds, Trump is a narcissistic POS, no argument...but wasn't he once the darling of New York liberal celebs and Democratic Pols until he got hooked on the ultimate attention high and limitless grift of politics and waded into their pond.

Politics aside he's been an arrogant, ignorant ass his whole life...

 

[BrentD]

How so? The people actually running this country aren’t elected.

Then you don't care about elections? Interesting.

 

[Bullbrl]

How so? The people actually running this country aren’t elected.

True as well

 

[Nick87]

Left or right really don’t matter till we see some term limits all the way around

I don't know if that would necessarily fix the problem, but it would definitely be worthwhile regardless.

 

[cgasner1]

I don't know if that would necessarily fix the problem, but it would definitely be worthwhile regardless.

I guarantee you the founding father never had visions of 70-80 year olds running this place for 30+ years while being worth a 1000x their annual income

 

[Nick87]

I guarantee you the founding father never had visions of 70-80 year olds running this place for 30+ years while being worth a 1000x their annual income

No argument there.

 

[406dn]

Regarding term limits, they won't fix anything. If we are to fix it, it is on voters to look further than the party affiliation of the candidate. Unless and until enough voters will consider both candidates, individually, we are where we are.

Each side thinks the other side is the problem. That is our problem. Without some ability to compromise, we will remain where we are.

 

[TN2shot07]

I guarantee you the founding father never had visions of 70-80 year olds running this place for 30+ years while being worth a 1000x their annual income

Unfortunately there have been career politicians as long as we’ve had a political system. We just live longer than we ever have so they don’t see any reason to step down. Most aren’t capable of holding another job where they could command that salary, much like tenured college professors. It was mentioned earlier but there are minimum ages to run, we need a max too. Term limits wouldn’t hurt anything but it’s not a cure all

 

[406dn]

I guarantee you the founding father never had visions of 70-80 year olds running this place for 30+ years while being worth a 1000x their annual income

Many of the founding fathers were pretty long in the tooth.

 

[Gus Chiggins]

Most aren’t capable of holding another job where they could command that salary

Some are pretty good at the stock market. Others could probably make good money sitting on the boards of international companies.

 

[TN2shot07]

Some are pretty good at the stock market. Others could probably make good money serving as sitting on the boards of international companies.

If we all had access to the information they do we’d probably be pretty good at the stock market, too.

 

[Gus Chiggins]

Many of the founding fathers were pretty long in the tooth.

Not literally though -- those wooden teeth could probably be sanded down quickly. With shorter life expectancies but without the miracles of botox and hair implants, they probably looked fairly advanced by age 40.