Originally Posted by numan
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1. Penny-ante political offices in hick towns are completely different from high offices in the national government -- or even in state governments.

2. Politicans must learn -- and master well -- a few tricks in order to bamboozle the public and get elected. Those tricks are pretty much antithetical to the skills needed to make intelligent and far-reaching decisions for the Public Good.

3. The political puppets who are "selected" for public office by the REAL rulers of America are chosen from a small group of carefully vetted candidates for the huckster sideshow known as an "American election", and are tied up tight in a web of obligations to their Real Masters, so that the essential interests of the Rich and Powerful are never seriously threatened.
noomie, I jist swoon at your high drama and hyperbole! (And it ain't fattening, like chocolate.)

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