11-05-2024, 08:55 AM
That is a very good point that it is in local elections that there is still the least disaffection, a hope that true change is possible, the choices aren't all just different flavours of [censored], and votes really do matter. Although party-line "pull the lever" voting by the majority of voters makes this somewhat difficult to believe there, too.
And yes office holding is a responsibility, not a popularity contest! In theory, anyway. In practice it seems to be all about appearances, the entrenched bureaucracy and surrounding apparatus seems to run everything anyway. After all, both with Regan and Biden we had essentially mentally non-functional presidents for much of their terms, and it didn't really seem to matter one bit, as long as people believed they were putting their suit on and sitting at their fancy desk each day.
It does seem this nation was founded on principle of local-up governance giving a foundation of integrity. As Chiefsmom just said "The only way to attempt to get back to that time, is to go vote", but it reminds me of this quote that Albert Einstein didn't say: "We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”.
And yes office holding is a responsibility, not a popularity contest! In theory, anyway. In practice it seems to be all about appearances, the entrenched bureaucracy and surrounding apparatus seems to run everything anyway. After all, both with Regan and Biden we had essentially mentally non-functional presidents for much of their terms, and it didn't really seem to matter one bit, as long as people believed they were putting their suit on and sitting at their fancy desk each day.
It does seem this nation was founded on principle of local-up governance giving a foundation of integrity. As Chiefsmom just said "The only way to attempt to get back to that time, is to go vote", but it reminds me of this quote that Albert Einstein didn't say: "We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”.
