You know that saying "The public is way ahead of the politicians"?

AlCzervik

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Fri May-25-07 01:29 PM
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You know that saying "The public is way ahead of the politicians"?

Do you thinks thats true and do the politicians just basically ignore public sentiment until election day?

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bamacrat

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Fri May-25-07 01:39 PM
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1. Agree 100%..

The only time the politicians acknowledge the public sentiment is election day. It will not change until there are better people in charge so probably never.

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dflprincess

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Fri May-25-07 02:07 PM
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2. They're never going to listen to us until the way elections are finanaced is changed

and they have to depend on us for both money and votes.

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Lone_Star_Dem

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Fri May-25-07 02:09 PM
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3. Agreed

So long as politicians are beholden to the big money interest the actual voters get little more than lip service right before elections.

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Bake

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Fri May-25-07 02:59 PM
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4. Of course it's true.

Politicians have to persuade people to vote for them (well, OK, in an ideal world people's votes do matter). And since politicians tend to be cautious, don't rock the boat types, they adopt safe positions on real issues and try to manufacture an image that says "leader."

Once in, they're not going to do ANYTHING to rock the boat unless their constitutents demand it. So almost by definition, the pols are way behind the people in terms of issues.

And that's a damn shame. Been a long time, too damn long a time, since we had real LEADERS. JFK was one. MLK was one. Not many since then.

Bake

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LostinVA

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Fri May-25-07 03:03 PM
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5. It's often true

Not in the case of some minority rights, but usually, yes.

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