Why are politicians so openly corrupt? Would you rather have an honest dictator than a lying president?

Question

Its sad that all the "heroes" these days are either entertainers or atheletes. Politicians these days are on the same level as tv evangelists.

Answer 1

If you are saying Bush and Cheney are honest dictators, you are sadly mistaken. Is it so much to ask for a honest Politician and an honest government?Bush and Cheney are obviously Dictators and we don't need those either.Since it was the TV evangelists who managed to get them ion the White House in the first place, I propose nobody listen to those greedy liars either.

Answer 2

I'll take the President over a dictator, even if the President were a TV evangelist like Pat Robertson (although my support for gay rights and opposition to capital punishment would stop me from voting for him).

I also don't know how to tell a lie from an honest mistake sometimes. If a politician makes an honest mistake, you know the opposition will insist it was a lie, so I take the urban legend that all politicians are liars with a grain of salt.

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Answer 3

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The problem is that politicians have gained far too much power, because the government has squeezed more authority out of the people of the United States than it was ever intended to have.

In order to control the corrupt status of politicians, the size of government must be reduced.

In response to the second question, it is far better to have a lying president, because a president can be removed from power far more easily than a dictator.

Answer 4

Don't know about the "openly" part, but it's true that corruption keeps raising it's ugly head these days. I always thought that Mexico's failure to progress was due to the political crooks, but I am beginning to suspect that our own political kitchen isn't so clean. The choice between an honest dictator and a lying President isn't one we have....what we DO have is a lying President who thinks he's a dictator!

Answer 5

The only president within recent memory who lied under oath and got impeached and lost his license to practice law was William Jefferson Clinton. I would call Bush stubborn to a fault but a dictator? Try FDR in WWII who put a gag order on the media and sent US citizens of Japanese descent to concentration camps. If FDR were president today he'd be sending US citizens of Muslim faith to concentration camps.

Answer 6

i think a lying president is best....dictators don't have such a great track record...and they're so darn hard to get rid of.