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How to become politician
- Thread starter johnsri
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McBell
Unbound
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Lie for all it's worth and promise people the world that they are in complete *snicker* control.
exchemist
Veteran Member
So it's bye bye again from science forums.
Sell your soul and whore yourself out to the biggest donors.
rocala
Well-Known Member
Well, if you really have to ask, I would say that you are seriously unsuitable for the job. That is not necessarily a bad thing.
PureX
Veteran Member
Sadly, the first rule of politics in a democracy is that "you can't play if you don't win". So step number one is to win. If you don't do that, there is no step number two.
So every wanna-be politician in a democratic system immediately faces the dilemma of what values they are willing to sacrifice in order to win a seat at the table. And it becomes very easy for them to tell themselves that they must do whatever it takes to win, so that they can make "good" on it later, after they're in that seat. And the end result is that they have agreed to sacrificed their integrity before they even got in the door. Making it just that much easier for them to do it again, next time around. Always telling themselves that they will make good on all those lapses of integrity at some point down the road.
So every wanna-be politician in a democratic system immediately faces the dilemma of what values they are willing to sacrifice in order to win a seat at the table. And it becomes very easy for them to tell themselves that they must do whatever it takes to win, so that they can make "good" on it later, after they're in that seat. And the end result is that they have agreed to sacrificed their integrity before they even got in the door. Making it just that much easier for them to do it again, next time around. Always telling themselves that they will make good on all those lapses of integrity at some point down the road.
Bleak but sadly accurate