2007-07-31 06:50:14 · 17 answers · asked by LEONARD W 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Hibee, ok 70s is plural, not possessive
2007-07-31 07:19:14 · update #1
All of our politicians are not brain damaged. The vast majority are hardworking people who became interested in public life because they thought they could do some good. They spent thousands of hours going to PTA or Little League meetings, at Chamber of Commerce lunches or Union seminars, or at a hundred other community organization events long before they ever ran for office. Unless the belief that a citizen has a duty to participate in his/her government is a sign of brain damage I would suggest that they are among the finest people we can offer as an example of our culture.
Because some of the worst rise to the top, we brand all social activists of all political creeds as corrupt and venal. That is as unfair to say as it would be to say that because your newspaper person keeps missing the porch that all paperboys have weak arms. How many hour have you devoted to your community lately?
It is not these people who reject the honest and elect the venal. It is the voters, who have been brain damaged by too much commercial media exposure.
Further, it is also unfair to criticize the generation that were educated in the 70s. This was the first generation that was brought up in homes where televisions were near universal. For the millions whose parents left them in front of the old black and white to be thouroughly indoctrinated with the consumer ethic and infected with short term attention spans no kind of educational system would have been adequate. Will any of the following generations be any smarter?
The evidence suggests that they will not. Since I started paying attention in the last 50s the quality of President we elect has gotten consistently worse. There have been some good candidates, but they cannot get through the primaries.
Whose fault is that? It is not the honest social activists, who stand for office in good faith but are rejected at the polls. It is the fault of the voters, of every generation and race.
Democracy depends on an aware electorate. The failures of our system are being blamed on the Tom DeLays, but they rest most squarely on our own shoulders. We elected George W. Bush at least once, and have nobody to blame but ourselves.
2007-07-31 07:11:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The words politician and educated should never be used in the same sentence.
This is very bad English.
5 out of 10.
2007-07-31 07:25:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Knowledge is not the problem. The problem is that the politicians in office now do not care what the people that elected them think. It is time for a change.
2007-07-31 06:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hope not but then I was educated mostly in the 70's.
2007-07-31 06:53:39 · answer #4 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
no because most were educated in the 40/50/60/ ..s some even in the 20/ 30.s ...shall we give it another 10yrs and ask again
2007-08-03 03:09:28 · answer #5 · answered by bobonumpty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it was their Parents that had Brain Damage.
They kept on putting the Nappie on the wrong end of 'baby poli', guess where the spoon went.
2007-07-31 07:26:26 · answer #6 · answered by rogerglyn 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They all need to be kicked out of office next election, I'd rather vote for a damn goat them any of the corrupt crime cartel bosses in DC now!!
2007-07-31 06:53:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think they still knew when an apostrophe was required, in the 70s.
2007-07-31 07:00:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No,just brain damaged.
2007-07-31 06:53:43 · answer #9 · answered by Piztaker 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No just think they are educated, fast mouth and a quick tongue makes a politician. not education........
2007-07-31 07:45:02 · answer #10 · answered by lowlevel_interference 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋