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…

  • @[email protected]
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    279 months ago

    Well, he is not wrong. They send politicians there instead of people who actually had a job, who had to work for a living, who actually have experience of being a normal citizen.

    • @[email protected]
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      119 months ago

      I for one don’t think there is a single thing wrong with the idea of a professional politician. The problem is the legalized bribery that comes in the form of campaign donations.

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        69 months ago

        Agreed. If you have extremely inexperienced politicians, your end result is that they are easily manipulated by whatever or whoever gets to whisper in their ear, like said lobbyists.

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      19 months ago

      Like the representative from Nebraska’s 2nd, the coward Don Bacon.

      He was an air force general prior to running for office, so I imagine he had a spine. He tipped well and was nice in person, but then he ran for office, and is now the biggest coward a man could ever see.