Tainari88 wrote:That is the Citizens United problem. It is legal to be bribing with lobbyists and campaign fund contributions with black lists where you don't have access to where the money is coming from.
A lot of the PACs are formed with lobbyists who campaign for their interests and win that influence. It is perfectly legal.
Term limits? They don't want it. It is entrenched.
It is interesting. The only way out of the mess is massive pressure. People think it doesn't work. But it does. Ricky Rossello had to leave office. The political pressure was heavy. The problem becomes the political vacuum left behind. If you don't have a Plan B to solve that issue of who fills the power vacuum and how that person deals with the crisis? It is ineffective Fin.
You got to do sweeping changes. That usually means protests en masse and constant pressure.
Something very common in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East. The last historical period for the USA for that? Besides the Women's March etc in the states? Was in the 1960's.
There is a lack of civility and an apathetic thing happening. Those are two very hard things to overcome. Apathetic voters and lack of civility and people not being civil and being able to break down what is wrong and why it is affecting them?
Money is absolutely corrupting in politics. Anyone thinks it is not? Is extremely naive and extremely ignorant. Lack of civility is toxic too....if the only way of winning is insults and planting cameras to find people with their pants down in a hotel? No one who is loving their private lives going to get into politics. You will be dealing with strange people who don't care about their private lives or who have enough power to cover their butts and to buy people off. Almost mafia types come to mind.
Those are the only ones left under those conditions Fin. Unfortunately.
agreed
politicians are just Rock Star wannabes without the talent
"Rockstar"
I'm through with standing in line
To clubs we'll never get in
It's like the bottom of the ninth
And I'm never gonna win
This life hasn't turned out quite the way I want it to be
(Tell me what you want)
I want a brand new house
On an episode of Cribs
And a bathroom I can play baseball in
And a king size tub big enough for ten plus me
(So what you need?)
I'll need a—a credit card that's got no limit
And a big black jet with a bedroom in it
Gonna join the mile high club at thirty-seven thousand feet
(Been there, done that)
I want a new tour bus full of old guitars
My own star on Hollywood Boulevard
Somewhere between Cher and James Dean is fine for me
(So how you gonna do it?)
I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame
I'd even cut my hair and change my name
'Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars
And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat
And we'll hang out in the coolest bars
In the VIP with the movie stars
Every good gold digger's gonna wind up there
Every Playboy Bunny with her bleached blond hair
And, well
Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar
Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar
I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels
Hire eight body guards that love to beat up assholes
Sign a couple autographs so I can eat my meals for free
(I'll have the quesadilla, ha, ha)
I'm gonna dress my ass with the latest fashion
Get a front door key to the Playboy mansion
Gonna date a centerfold that loves to blow my money for me
(So how you gonna do it?)
I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame
I'd even cut my hair and change my name
'Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars
And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat
And we'll hang out in the coolest bars
In the VIP with the movie stars
Every good gold digger's gonna wind up there
Every Playboy Bunny with her bleached blond hair
And we'll hide out in the private rooms
With the latest dictionary and today's who's who
They'll get you anything with that evil smile
Everybody's got a drug dealer on speed dial
Well
Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar
I'm gonna sing those songs that offend the censors
Gonna pop my pills from a pez dispenser
I'll get washed-up singers writing all my songs
Lip-sync 'em every night so I don't get 'em wrong
Well, we all just wanna be big rockstars
And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat
And we'll hang out in the coolest bars
In the VIP with the movie stars
Every good gold digger's gonna wind up there
Every Playboy Bunny with her bleached blond hair
And we'll hide out in the private rooms
With the latest dictionary and today's who's who
They'll get you anything with that evil smile
Everybody's got a drug dealer on speed dial
Well
Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar
Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar