02-16-2012, 06:13 PM
...how it used to work before the parties decided to let chaos reign in the guise of The Voice of the People.
I've always considered $tevie's smoke filled backroom concept to have some merit and I will tell you why. It is not the unseemly sense of corruption that it engenders, but it is more, as she states, the guise of the voice of the people argument. As modern politics has more and more pandered to public opinion polling, something important has been lost, leadership. We no longer have leaders who will act out of strength of will and character, but politicians who listen to handlers and polls to arrive at decisions that are the most pragmatic for an upcoming election. They have no vision of leadership to a greater country, but, more akin to Wall street, a nose for the quarterly report.