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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> >Does anyone really care????
>
> I care. Of man's many flaws, I despise hypocrisy.
>
> heh, you must not even be able to watch politics then.

It is my obligation as a citizen to watch politicians and their programs no 
matter how much discomfort it causes. What is most depressing to me is that 
politicians so easily fool voters. Politicians are evolving and the masses 
are devolving. This is true because we have professional politicians and 
professional political operatives. When a high lifestyle depends on 
successful elections and the payoff warrants the cost, they do whatever is 
necessary to win. Those who have weakest ethics more easily win because 
they operate on the dictum that all is fair in politics. It has become very 
hard for a decent person to stand up to the ugly tactics of modern 
operatives engaged in election warfare. The only answer is for voters to 
think; to look beyond slogans and promises and 
repeated-to-the-point-of-nausea untruths that through repetition become 
accepted. Entrenched power is one of the uglies of our so-called civil-ization.