[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by reelapeelin

Our politicians ARE SCREWING US from BOTH sides of the aisle...if we ever wake up and start holding all our elected officials accountable for what they do with our money and our lives, we might be able to get together and save this country....

The problem is that you really don't know an elected official until he or she has been in office.... and with the long terms they have (4 years for a congressman and 6 years for a senator) once they are elected it's like trying to remove a buried tick to get them out....and meantime they do so much damage that it's almost impossible to undo it at times.

There really is no ironclad way of knowing what a politician's agenda is going to be until after they are elected, so the only thing that we, as citizens, can do it be very, very, careful about who we elect. Elections have consequences, sometimes very dire ones, as we have seen in our last presidential election. Unfortunately, with a media that is overwhelmingly biased towards one party, getting unbiased reports and opinions is next to impossible. Not impossible, just next to impossible. We, as citizens, need to look at any person that is running for office from both sides. They need to be scrutinized under a microscope before they get our votes.

Unfortunatly, there are a lot of uninformed, stupid, lazy people that are only interested in what the government will give them that are leading us down a path to ruin. It is up to us to educate them, as well as ourselves, to any deragetory information about a cannidate. Only by exposing these leaches to the full light of day can we hope to at least counter their stupidity and greed.