More coming tomorrow! :mrgreen: :sun It's 71 and sunny here today. And I'm definitely getting a tan, so you may be too.
Btw, I found these baby rabbits today on my job:
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And this hawk in our parking garage the other day, stuck temporarily in the stairwell:
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Wow! Great pictures! :thumbs: They must know you wouldn't hurt them - how young do you think they are? What job are you doing - landscaping of some sort?
Follow up on the weather you sent my way last evening. . . it's 71 degrees right now, heading to 75 degrees, which the NWS says "will feel like 77 degrees!" JC, you can send temps like that anytime you feel like it! :kissy: I just brought the little dogs indoors, and maybe it's wishful thinking, but I swear I'm starting to get a tan - in mid-April in NE Ohio? Unheard of..... :mrgreen: ... :happy:
Are we unfair to our politicians?
Time for a gut-check. Seems like pretty much everyone is unhappy with, and distrustful of, our collective leadership. We don't seem to like anybody anymore, and to be honest I'm right there, too. In the interest of full honesty, if someone were to ask me, "Well, radcen, who DO you like?", I'm not sure I could answer that.
Are we expecting too much? Are we expecting some sort of super-human capability that even we could never attain?
I'm not suggesting there aren't legitimate gripes, there most certainly are. But are we going too far?
Are we unfair to our politicians?
Time for a gut-check. Seems like pretty much everyone is unhappy with, and distrustful of, our collective leadership. We don't seem to like anybody anymore, and to be honest I'm right there, too. In the interest of full honesty, if someone were to ask me, "Well, radcen, who DO you like?", I'm not sure I could answer that.
Are we expecting too much? Are we expecting some sort of super-human capability that even we could never attain?
I'm not suggesting there aren't legitimate gripes, there most certainly are. But are we going too far?
Just visit your local state representative at the state capital. He will most likely give you the nickel tour. If a state representative is that difficult, multiply that by 50 for a Congressman. It's a tough job. But still, we should try for the best.
Well over 20 years ago I took a day off and attended a town hall meeting hosted by my state rep. He was of the opposite party as me, but I was interested in the process.Yes. Too many people have delusional expectations of their representatives and use them as a white board which they can project all of their anger onto.
We choose those two people (with an unfortunate amount of influence by the Parties).
Oh...you mean by hoping for change.
Okay, I get it.
a choice artificially limited to two gerrymandered teams isn't much of a choice.
We currently have a system that is very broken and for most people the answer is do more of what got here in the first place. We need change and we are the only ones who can bring about that change.
You wrote: "Our elected representatives should reflect the best in our society and it's HARD to find one that even reflects the norm... We need to raise the standards for our politicians, not accept the low standards that have become the norm."
I asked you, "How do we do that...and what reflects the best in our society?"
Still waiting for an answer that does actually sounds like a reasonable way to do it. I'm not trying to be insulting...but your answer so far sounds like, "We just hope it happens."
"We" do that by voting.
"the best" means that we start by not voting anyone who has violated our laws or our individual moral principals. It means that we set HIGH standards for the people we vote for and not just accepting the ones who tickle our fancy.
It wouldn't be a fast change, but it would be a good one. It would require the near dissolution of the political parties and even a possible amendment to the Constitution stating that no one who has been convicted of a felony can be elected to public office.
I think that you got confused on which post I was answering:
My answer to your question:
We" do that by voting.
"the best" means that we start by not voting anyone who has violated our laws or our individual moral principals.
It means that we set HIGH standards for the people we vote for and not just accepting the ones who tickle our fancy.
It wouldn't be a fast change, but it would be a good one. It would require the near dissolution of the political parties and even a possible amendment to the Constitution stating that no one who has been convicted of a felony can be elected to public office.
"We" do that by voting.
"the best" means that we start by not voting anyone who has violated our laws or our individual moral principals. It means that we set HIGH standards for the people we vote for and not just accepting the ones who tickle our fancy.
It wouldn't be a fast change, but it would be a good one. It would require the near dissolution of the political parties and even a possible amendment to the Constitution stating that no one who has been convicted of a felony can be elected to public office.
"We vote."
I doesn't happen.
And we resolve the differences in our "moral principles" HOW???
Besides...there are morons who do not violate laws and moral principles...who would be much worse as elected officials.
C'mon!
Al Capone probably would have made a decent legislator or executive. Nixon was an above average executive.
With all the respect in the world, you are dreaming...and spouting platitudes.
I prefer the term "vision" instead of dream. Just because it's tough doesn't mean we don't start trying. It's your attitude that change isn't going to happen that's the biggest problem we have with his kind of change. Too many people think that things are just the way are and there's no changing them and that's what's allowed the culls we keeping putting into office depend on to keep getting re-elected.
"Our elected representatives should reflect the best in our society and it's HARD to find one that even reflects the norm... We need to raise the standards for our politicians, not accept the low standards that have become the norm."
Are we unfair to our politicians?
Time for a gut-check. Seems like pretty much everyone is unhappy with, and distrustful of, our collective leadership. We don't seem to like anybody anymore, and to be honest I'm right there, too. In the interest of full honesty, if someone were to ask me, "Well, radcen, who DO you like?", I'm not sure I could answer that.
Are we expecting too much? Are we expecting some sort of super-human capability that even we could never attain?
I'm not suggesting there aren't legitimate gripes, there most certainly are. But are we going too far?
Right. I don't expect them to be "super human", but I do expect them to be better than average.I don't thin we ask them to be "super human", but at the same accord, given that they wield our power and sovereignty, we need quite a bit of assurances and oversight to maintain proper behavior.
Right. I don't expect them to be "super human", but I do expect them to be better than average.
I do not "think" change is going to happen...I am damn near positive it will happen.
I just think the kind of change you are talking about is not in the books.
You wrote:
You wrote:
I asked you (twice now), "How do we do that...and what reflects the best in our society?"
As I said earlier, I am still waiting for an answer that sounds like a reasonable way to do it...and to see if you can understand that we do not all have the same standards for our politicians.
They are human, FS...AND THEIR PRIMARY CONCERN IS GOING TO BE WITH SELF AND FAMILY just as we all are concerned with self and family.
Give up what you have and go into politics and be the kind of politician you seem to want...one with little concern for self and family...and just concern yourself with the people who are demanding that you do the damn near impossible...and do it at pay lower than much of mid-management America.
No one is going to do that!
We have to be more reasonable about what we expect from our elected officials. YOU have to be more reasonable about what YOU expect from them.
I don't thin we ask them to be "super human", but at the same accord, given that they wield our power and sovereignty, we need quite a bit of assurances and oversight to maintain proper behavior.
Right. I don't expect them to be "super human", but I do expect them to be better than average.
This is a good example actually, some one blaming politicians for things which are their own fault. Politicians do not divide us, we do. Politicians do not limit our choices, we do. And so on. But it is so much easier to blame others for our own failings.