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2023-10-12 Europe

Western political system doesn't bring smart people to the top – Putin

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Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-12 02:23|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 Look at Trump and Biden; 120 million Americans can be president, and look at the drop kicks the US picks.

Posted by Herb Johnson6409 2023-10-12 04:55|| 2023-10-12 04:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Eastern political system doesn't bring smart people to the top either apparently.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-10-12 05:31|| 2023-10-12 05:31|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Well, stopped clock and all that.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-10-12 06:13|| 2023-10-12 06:13|| Front Page Top

#4 But they live and remain worthless for ever.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-12 07:16|| 2023-10-12 07:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Politics really doesn't attract any Lincolns or Churchills these days.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-12 07:21|| 2023-10-12 07:21|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Monopolar world.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-12 07:22|| 2023-10-12 07:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Given that libel laws are nearly non-existent, why put your family through such a process? If you're smart, you avoid that.

Thus you have politics. That comes from two words - poly meaning 'many' and ticks which are 'blood suckers'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-10-12 08:59|| 2023-10-12 08:59|| Front Page Top

#8 ^😊🤣😃😂😁

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-12 09:05|| 2023-10-12 09:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, it seems that power attracts sociopaths like candles attract moths. But it isn't just in the West. The best we can do is institute a Constitution that limits the power of government and provides for the three different branches to check and balance each other. Too bad the Constitution says nothing about the Deep State or the Military Industrial Complex but I'd bet other countries have those too.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-10-12 09:09|| 2023-10-12 09:09|| Front Page Top

#10

Regrettably, these gentlemen do not appear to be the exception.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-12 09:36|| 2023-10-12 09:36|| Front Page Top

#11 No political system brings the smart people to the top. They'd rather somebody else did this crap, while they do what they'd like.
If you look back at your time at school, you could see the workers, the smart ones, the atheletes.
The politicians were the ones running for cheerleader.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-10-12 10:12|| 2023-10-12 10:12|| Front Page Top

#12 More powerful than politicians is the media.

I was interviewed once by a reporter. A group of us volunteer firefighters were sitting around the lounge when a reporter from a large newspaper on the area walked in. He wanted to know how we felt about how the county commissioners dealt with our little volunteer fire department (there were 10 small town fire departments in that county).

1) He was very surprisingly accurate in publishing our ("unofficial") opinions.

2) It really pissed off the county commissioners to no end to hear we had a voice for once. It was pretty cool.

Posted by Captain Splat8849 2023-10-12 12:22|| 2023-10-12 12:22|| Front Page Top

#13 I would trade integrity for brains. Eisenhower was probably the last President with brains and integrity.

Posted by Airandee 2023-10-12 20:29|| 2023-10-12 20:29|| Front Page Top

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