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In reply to the discussion: Presidents should be questioned and confronted, not idolized [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Politicians work FOR us. That is their JOB. We are their bosses.
The mark of a shitty boss is a person who is ABUSIVE.
That doesn't mean that we should not demand quality work, what it does mean is that calling the "servants" pieces of shit is just NOT ON.
And we are better than THAT.
As for Noam and his agents of power crap, the state, in the USA, is US.
"WE, the PEOPLE." And if "WE" don't get off our asses and execute that boss power that is inherent in each one of us, then WE the PEOPLE are to blame.
Sick of passivity, I am. "Waaah, we're victims of THE STATE!!! WAAAH!" We are the frigging state--people need to get off their collective asses and grasp that. Our power is in our hands, and so many of us just piss it away. I'll bet even the most ardent DUers don't show up for local elections in their communities half the time....and that's on THEM. Because that is where it BEGINS.
All politics is local. That alderman becomes a state senator and then a representative and then a senator. That selectman becomes an attorney general and then becomes the governor. That IS how it works. Local elections MATTER.
I think that saying it's "OK" to call a leader who involves him or herself in the brutal arena that is politics a "piece of shit used car salesman" IS acting like the RWing nutjob sites you say we should not imitate. Intelligent people don't have to resort to that kind of, dare I say, childish and petulant BULLSHIT.
We ARE better than that.