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Originally posted by SkanK0r
And that goes along with what's REALLY wrong with everything - no one admits to their mistakes, and thus no one learns from them. People and organizations no longer care about self-improvement. It's all about discrediting the other guy, or proving him wrong.
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Yeah, your right on the mark here. Politicians become careerists, only interested in discrediting the other dude. Most of the time they just behave like schoolchildren. Its refreshing to see a poli that gives a shit about something and makes a stand.
One thing ive noticed about Americans, as opposed to the rest of the western world, is a sincere belief that your politicians are there for your best interests, and are possibly good people too. I think this is both bad and a good thing. In Britain and Australia we are so cynical- nobody loves our Prime Minister in the same romanticised spirit that the US seems to love its President. We could never ever have an Air Force 1 type film where our Prime Minister is the hero and saves the world and fistfights the bad guys. This is completely inconcievable. On the one hand i like the idea of plebs feeling so nobly represented that it moves them deeply; but then again some healthy criticism of the top dogs is also a good thing. I do know for sure that if our prime Minister used the evocative emotive psudo-biblical referances in his speeches that ive heard GW using, we would keel over laughing. But as i said, i can see this as both a good and bad thing.