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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt seems that our Founding Fathers believed that Politics should not be a career
They believed that a politician should serve only a limited number of terms before taking up his true calling...
Highly paid lobbyist.
(This is a joke about the sanctimony of retiring congresspersons)
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It seems that our Founding Fathers believed that Politics should not be a career (Original Post)
cthulu2016
Jan 2014
OP
"History has tried to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2014
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libodem
(19,288 posts)1. I don't think
They envisioned, Oligarchy, as the outcome. Nope.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)2. Of course, many of the Founding Fathers were self employed businessmen and/or
plantation owners who could afford to dabble in politics for a few years. IIRC, in the early years, plantation owners in Virginia passed around Congressional seats almost as a rite of passage among the upper, upper crust.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)3. "History has tried to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.
"History has tried to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of government couldn't be wise." Mark Twain
"When politics enter . .. . government, nothing resulting there from in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible." Mark Twain
"Right here in this heart and home and fountain-head of law this great factory where are forged those rules that create good order and compel virtue and honesty in the other communities of the land, rascality achieves its highest perfection." Mark Twain
"When politics enter . .. . government, nothing resulting there from in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible." Mark Twain
"Right here in this heart and home and fountain-head of law this great factory where are forged those rules that create good order and compel virtue and honesty in the other communities of the land, rascality achieves its highest perfection." Mark Twain