Fetterman: America ‘not sending their best and brightest’ to Congress

politics @lemmy.world – 730 points – 9 months ago

Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday that America “is not sending their best and brightest” to represent them in Congress. “Sometimes you literally just can’t believe like, these people are mak…

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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: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.'

-George Carlin

He missed a nuance. A certain type of person wants power, is successful at getting it, and good at keeping it. It's the worst of the worst.

It is the logic of plunder. Our businesses breed such individuals.

I mean... Bit of a stretch but hear me out.. Vikings conquered the British Isles. They led the colonization of the world. The waspyest wasps came to the States. Their "best" have consolidated power since. That's who runs capitalism now.