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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (720329)	1/2/2006 5:55:27 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"Buddy, I often ask, where are all the statesmen? We only have politicians now." It could just be that because we are more focused upon the present, we forget the high levels of greed, corruption and incompetance that existed all through history, I guess.... Or, it may be that things move in phases, cycles... and we truly are in a bad patch now, even worse then the average. (It's hard for me to make my mind up over the question of 'are our politics WORSE now than the average'... but I DO BELIEVE that the modern era --- characterized by the rise to dominance of the 'two Party' system in the 20th. Century --- has brought about some fundimental and long-lived changes that we did not suffer from before.) It is natural for two dominant Parties to act like an oligopoly, and manipulate the political rules jointly so as to raise high barriers to entry, a high 'ring fence' around their protected political turfs, to keep competition from new political Parties, new political ideas, out of the system. This is just as natural a development as it was for the trade guilds (forerunners of today's trade unions) in medieval times to enact rules and regulations around their operations and their memberships to keep competition out and prices high. Most 'professional' organizations (doctors, lawyers, etc., etc.) function in the same manner, one of their primary reasons for being is the protection and enhancement of the profit-making potential of membership in the organization.

To: haqihana who wrote (720329)	1/3/2006 3:57:54 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Statesmen are rare, but they are there. George Bush, Condi Rice, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld. The anti-American media hates them daily, while populists resent any and all statesmen because it challenges their ignorant proposition that the political process itself is evil. Statesmen are people who emerge from their contemporary noise with a legacy enhanced (Nixon turning around the Cold War, or Reagan WINNING it.) One requires clear and unrevised insight (not to mention solid grounding in PRINCIPLE) to recognize them in their own time. And looking through the Democrats' Leninist fog has made it harder than ever in this era. Statesmens' work, however, saves the world and survives the contemporary chatter, while revisionism eventually washes away. Suffice it to say that the enemy media has tried like hell to manufacture a hero from the remnants of the criminal Clinton, and it hasn't worked for them...