Politics - What's the point?

Question

It seems to me that while all the politicians have such good intentions. the moment they get into office their intentions go out the window.

it becomes all about scoring points off the other team, rather than about the country and its needs. they forget that its not them and their interestes we voted in, its their ability to correct and better the country for the whole population.

if you sit and watch the parliment coverage on Sky, its like watching a school play ground. He said, shes said, they said; its not my fault it's you; you started it ..... blah-blah-blah.

the seem to talk endlessly about things that are already happening; discuss things that have already taken place; ***** and whine about each other ........ not once have i ever seen them resolve a single issue.

Water; got it wrong! Rail; got it wrong! Pensions; got it wrong! Iraq; got it wrong! Unemplyment; got it wrong!

Sack the lot and lets start again with some real people, from real streets, with real jobs

Answer 1

yes what you are saying is right and they dont think of no one only them selfs and there only in it to fill there own pockets and they dont care about anything else

Answer 2

Your last sentence shows what many people feel.The people who are elected are from those prepared to stand whether in a political party or as independent.
The snag with politicians of all persuasions is an inability not to be able to distinguish truth from lies.This is not on major issues like foreign policy,NHS or lesser issues like speed camera's,sport ,or peerages.
If you feel you are a real person get involved, you stand up and be a real person from a real job.
You will develop a thick skin, learn how to avoid the question,but will meet and learn an amazing amount.
The thing you would need to keep in mind at all times would be how would real people interpret what you say, as truth or lies,and what about those you regard as unreal,you would be representing them as well.
Please don't knock those who have ago,but get in there yourself and show how you think it should be done,it would be of benefit to you and who knows the country.

Answer 3

Viva la revolution, I whole heartedly agree with your sentiments and very succinctly put if I may say so.

Here in Australia I think that John Howard and his crew are without doubt the worst leaders we have had in 200 years, along with Bush and Blair.

It all starts with apathy and political illiteracy and to give up would give them a free hand, so that is not an option. There are lots of sites on the net that lobby and pressure our pollies. Internet technology allows us to do this like never before. Try http://www.getup.org.au.

A great question. Get involved and keep the buggers on their toes and spread the word.

Jules, lecturer. Australia.

http://au.360.yahoo.com/julesgr7351
http://www.getup.org.au

Answer 4

I agree! So many people dig their heels in on an issue not because they believe in it but because they don't want to agree with "the other side." It doesn't feel like issues that are important to the people ever see the light of day.

Answer 5

It doesn't matter who you vote for the Government always gets in.

Source: My dad

Answer 6

Ralph Nader says it best: "If you don't turn on to politics, politics will simply turn on you."

Answer 7

Citizen...

Don't you relaize that it is your God-given duty to be involved in politics?

If you are not involved in politics, you are no longer a CITIZEN, you are a SUBJECT.

Here are some qoutes to help you with that question, Citizen.

Albert Einstein
The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.

ohn Adams
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.

Justice Hugo L. Black
The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.

Justice Felix Frankfurter
The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes

Samuel Adams
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave

Thomas Jefferson
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Gaius Julius Caesar
Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword. It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect. And if the striking of the war drum reached a fiebrige height and the blood is cooking and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn't need to reject the citizens rights. The citizens, cought by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage. Why do I know that? I know it, because this is, what I did. And I am Gajus Julius Cäsar.

Sir Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Napoleon Bonaparte
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

Henry Brooks Adams
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Josh Billings
The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Edmund Burke
To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Robert A. Heinlein
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

Lord Acton
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Samuel Adams
A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.

Lyn Nofziger
These things I believe: That government should butt out. That freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. That individual freedom demands individual responsibility. That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil. That the executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. That political parties have become close to meaningless. That government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away. That government should provide for the national defense and work to insure domestic tranquillity. That foreign trade should be fair rather than free. That America should be wary of foreign entanglements. That the tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government. That states are the bulwark of our freedom. That states should have the right to secede from the Union. That once a year we should hang someone in government as an example to his fellows.

Charles-Louis De Secondat
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Charles-Louis De Secondat
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Buddha
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Samuel Adams
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

Frank Dane
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Samuel Adams
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Thomas Jefferson
Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.

Vance Packard
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

Maxwell Anderson
When a government takes over a people's economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs.

Kort E. Patterson
According to Gestapo recordsthey had little need to engage in direct spying on the citizens since the citizens themselves were more than willing to do their spying for them.

Samuel Adams
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

Clint Eastwood
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that?

Patrick Henry
For I don't know about you, but I do know this. Give me Liberty or Give me Death!