I Am Offended

If I may...

The common people's interests are merely talked about. Politicians will pretend to have plans to act on people's interests in order to win elections. After that point, it is solely up to their discretion what happens (at least until the next election). The president has the power of executive order which carries the effect of the law.

Every society needs people of "ethical opinions that are not shared by the general population." If all of those people left the ... (more »)

AgentOrange:

I hear people talk about manipulative politicians not caring about people all the time.  But I fail to see how anybody actually knows that.  It seems like a bunch of stereotyping to me.  I think it's much more likely that the majority of politicians are misguided do-gooders than scheming, rich people.

I agree that every country needs ethical opinions that are not shared by the majority.  However I believe this c... (more »)

Marxism--noun the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, especially the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a so... (more »)