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Bianca Kennedy's avatar

I know this is just a fantasy, but I would love to have some sort of requirement for politicians to have spent a number of years in a blue-collar job, as in agriculture or construction or landscaping or plumbing. This would help with being grounded in the world of the common man. I would also like to see a requirement to having to run one's own business successfully - small or large, to keep in touch with how the real world and economy operate. The institution of term limits, being subject to be audited at anytime wihtout notice, and perhaps, having to work for no salary for a specified time, could provide meaningful wasy to stave off the class of mostly parasitic career politicians.

I haven't explored these ideas, so there are likely drawbacks. This is just off the top of my head. It's a great brainstorming exercise.

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Ernie Boxall's avatar

"You can't handle the truth!" And it's true. We can't. We never could and it goes back to the beginning of everything.

Telling the truth got President Kennedy murdered. Telling a lie made Ted Kennedy the Lion of the Senate.

Telling the truth got President Trump idicted. Telling a lie brought President Obama his third term in office. (We can debate whether that is the truth or not).

Our youth were sent into the services for many reasons in my lifetime. The truth was hidden by their leaders and the lie killed millions. But to the young men the truth was that "I served".

Certainly, here in the UK a politician who tells the truth is destroyed by the same people who voted for them. In truth, people are elected to carry on the lie.

But, where did this battle between truth and lies come from?

In my opinion, we open the Bible and right there in Genesis the lies begin.

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