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Originally Posted by hayden55
Plus, you have to think. Besides being smooth talkers, most politicians usually aren't very qualified to vote on most topics... But they do it. And we pay them. And we smile anyways.
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I agree with everything you said. But--what are my options here (as an individual)? Sure, vote; but of the half of us who are eligible to vote and actually get off the couch and do it, half think one thing and the other half another, and the politicians in power stay, by and large, in power. Tar and feathers, sure, or armed insurrection--but then I'll be arrested, prosecuted, and never heard from again if I'm not shot by the police to begin with. Since I have a vested interest in remaining alive, I'm not keen on that unless things get really, really bad and it becomes an attractive alternative.
I feel like smiling is just the coping mechanism most people have landed on.