So I caught part of the Democratic debate on NPR yesterday while driving home. It's the first one I've payed attention to, even though all they talked about (that I heard) was immigration
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The question is, would he follow through on those things he'd like to do with education? I find it hard to believe anything a politician says these days. Definitely post more if you hear/watch any more debates, though, as you are pretty much the only way I'm keeping up with politics at the moment haha!
As you say, it is hard to believe politicians. I think it's easier to believe someone who is really passionate about what they're saying, but even that doesn't mean he'll succeed with what he's doing, merely that he believes it himself.
Clinton, who's been pretty involved with politics for a while, seems to have the most realistic view of what's actually possible for a president to accomplish, but the problem with that is that it doesn't seem like very much. I don't want to maintain the status quo, I want to shake it up.
Obama and Ron Paul, like Kucinich, both seem to have a lot of really passionate followers (well, Obama more of them than the other two) implying that they at least come across as trustworthy, but I don't know enough to know why.
Even passion can be faked, though, and anyone can be bought off or corrupted.
I do often get the impression that leaders are so heavily restricted by current laws (and perhaps fear of change on the part of the people?) that they cannot act for extreme change, and extreme change is what we need. It's all too easy, on the other hand, to squirm around the law and come up with even more ways to restrict and do... well, evil, for lack of a better term at the moment. What we need is someone with a lot of courage, a lot of strength, and a lot of charisma on top of passion for a genuinely good cause.
I'm pretty sure the party system ensures that there will not be such a politician running for president any time soon, but here's hoping.
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Clinton, who's been pretty involved with politics for a while, seems to have the most realistic view of what's actually possible for a president to accomplish, but the problem with that is that it doesn't seem like very much. I don't want to maintain the status quo, I want to shake it up.
Obama and Ron Paul, like Kucinich, both seem to have a lot of really passionate followers (well, Obama more of them than the other two) implying that they at least come across as trustworthy, but I don't know enough to know why.
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I do often get the impression that leaders are so heavily restricted by current laws (and perhaps fear of change on the part of the people?) that they cannot act for extreme change, and extreme change is what we need. It's all too easy, on the other hand, to squirm around the law and come up with even more ways to restrict and do... well, evil, for lack of a better term at the moment. What we need is someone with a lot of courage, a lot of strength, and a lot of charisma on top of passion for a genuinely good cause.
I'm pretty sure the party system ensures that there will not be such a politician running for president any time soon, but here's hoping.
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