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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
If you want change vote the incumbent out. Without any job security you might see a change, but I doubt it with the principle objective being buying votes with debt passed on to the next generation.
regards
Mech
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If you are fond of corruption and cronyism, let the incumbent politicians grow roots and become entrenched and imbedded. Most of the supporters of incumbents don't want to have their "security" threatened any more than the incumbent does. If those who support the politician benefit, they continue supporting him. It's hard to dig out roots of weeds that have been there a very long time. The incumbent political leader has deep roots. We might say he is just the tip of the iceberg. He has a lot of unseen support at his base.
However, you are right about the chimera of voting for the alternate party when (in political reality) there are only two viable choices that have a large "war chest" of party financial backing. They win by playing the easily swayed populace with no real competition. When there are effectively only two major party choices, that's AKA "the lesser of two evils".
It's been said "better the devil you know than the devil you don't know". But that's no reason to vote for
any devil - be they new or old. It's merely the other side of the same coin.
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
Does anyone recognize this quote?