Don't Get Too Excited

[poliphilo]

In order to have a run at the Presidency of the USA you'll have had to eat a lot of crow and tread on a lot of fingers. Obama, Clinton, Romney, McCain- these are not nice people. 

And all of them- long since- will have ceased to have much to do with people like us- that is to say people without power or the hunger for power. The people they mostly consort with are those they can do deals with, those who can give them money or deliver support.

That's the nature of politics.

Whoever gets in they'll be beholden to the same baronial powers, in hock to the same military-industrial complex. It'll be nice to have a change of face at the top- and if that face turns out to be black or female it'll be a cheering indication of how social attitudes are changing- but that's all it'll be.

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[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I work in a law school - yes, I know, boo for lawyers - and I've seen any number of now politicians come through here. MOST of them were really nice, very sweet, well mannered. But when it comes right down to it, you have to compromise yourself if you want to have power. It truly is a lot like West Wing, in that you have to compromise your beliefs. YOu write a bill giving (for example) the right to medical care to all the children in the United States. Then someone in the Senate who helped you out, who delivered votes for you to be elected, says "Well, all the children in the U.S. EXCEPT those whose parents are a same sex couple. And if you don't write it that way, I won't sign it and it will die in committee."

It is disillusioning.