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Parent Post: How does someone run for office in todays time without selling out?
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maurice
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3/12/2025, 1:22:31 PM
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Well people with integrity in that sense is not really what I meant. How I see it is the current system is almost entirely full of people who were paid off by evil people to pass laws that push towards the elites goals. While it would be nice to have someone who is honest and straight forward, that will never solve any problems because the evil in charge will never allow it. What I mean by integrity is someone who will stay on the path to fixing these major issues and not get paid off or scared away, and if they have to play the system, hide their true intentions and lie to the evil that is in charge I have no problem with that. If you could cure cancer but was only able to do so by lying about your research to the people giving out grants, I think that you would be dishonorable not to do so. However I do believe you are right that we are not the first people to come up with this idea, and I unsure if it is the best method. That begs the question why has it continuously failed in the US? And to your last point, I blew by that because it does not solve the greater problem. I do think everyone should focus on building their communities for sure, but that can be done while also trying to find a solution to the larger picture as well.
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5/8/2025, 12:50:02 AM
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100% @maurice I said earlier on some random thread on here that **"the spark of revolution is going to be snuffed if the tinder is wet with apathy"** Community building is the overlooked element of necessary social capital that I think our whole social engineered post-WW2 consumerism rather than producerism mindset of keeping with the Jones' is designed for. I think about the elders in the mainstreet mom & pop community I grew up in the 90s and they were Titans of women and men of competence, character, class, and capability. We have too many adult children right now in our country more worried about the ball games than how their kids, and their neighbors kids are going to survive a potential WW3 scenario if India/Pakistan Russia/Ukraine Israel/Iran go at it... or hell if population collapse &/or inflation just crashes the healthcare/welfare/eldercare economy. I don't think the U.S. has been contentiously failed (historically). Certainly, I would agree with you in the past few decades of our entire adult lives in GWOT or later Cold War, but the Eisenhower years and preWW1 had a lot of promise. I like to look at things like we living now have our role to play in making things better for future generations, and what a fantastically troubled time for us to have to fight our battles. If we think our parents (certainly the boomers) failed then we've got to not do as they did, and make things better. Also yeah, we need leaders that can fix things and make a living independent of lawyering as parasites on society. I'd vote for plumbers, farmers, engineers, merchant sailors, HVAC techs and repairmen over the liberal artist that dominate America's present managerial class - but I think it's going to take more blood sweat and tears than voting.
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