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Originally Posted by Nippelspanner
Probably.
What baffles me most is how the whole USA cannot come up with anything better than Trump, Pence, Clinton and the others.
Isn't that weird?
That country has the most elite universities and leads in many ways, yet it can only come up with more or less human waste as presidential candidates?
It's absurd, but of course, observable in other western countries as well. The extend though, seems way more severe.
I wonder why that is.
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I think George Carlin said best why that is.
"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about
: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody:...."