For the life of me, I can't figure out how we continue electing politicians to political office. Even more than that, I can't figure out why people are even interested in a word any politician ever has to say. When a politician tells the truth, it is because the truth just happens to serve his/her purposes at the moment rather than some sort of fealty to it. Their job almost demands that they be crooked to continue to get jobs. If you knew someone who even occasionally was so duplicitous you would have nothing to do with such a person. It may be that we subconsciously want a weasel working the system to represent us the way some people prefer the slick ambulance chaser over the diligent idealist to represent them in court. But then hearing these people bash each other for various misdeeds smacks of the pot calling the kettle black. Anyway...
My gripe is why news organizations continue to book them for interviews. Seriously, you would be hard pressed to find a worse source for actual information. At least when idiotic rock stars stumble their way through a drunken interview with Rolling Stone, they are sort of trying to answer the questions. A politician can be counted on to willingly use every question as an opportunity to spew their platform rather than answer the questions. What kills me is then hearing the interviewer, ostensibly a trustworthy figure, go right on with the next question as if he had not just been given the runaround. Scoundrels enabling scoundrels. Ridiculous.
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