I attended a house fund raising meeting for the campaign of our senator that was seeking reelection after a lifetime of being a senator. I had the opportunity to sit with him along with a handful of people. My question to him was concerning term limits since he had been in office for so long and was not in very good health. He looked at …
I attended a house fund raising meeting for the campaign of our senator that was seeking reelection after a lifetime of being a senator. I had the opportunity to sit with him along with a handful of people. My question to him was concerning term limits since he had been in office for so long and was not in very good health. He looked at me and laughed. Then he explained that it took him this long to get into a position where he actually had the clout to get things done and it would be ridiculous to just keep bringing people in to start that cycle again each time. I responded that our government was set up so that regular people came in and served, then went back to their life and living. That way we had a variety of citizens serving, lots of opinions and experience being accessed. He looked at me like I had 3 heads and turned away to the next person. Our state senator lives right down the road from me and is a 32nd degree Mason that has been in office for a long, long time. He is like a ghost, nobody ever sees him anywhere except when he shows up at the required meetings at the capitol. These are just my local experiences, I can't fathom the level of corruption at higher levels of government. It seems like the whole system just needs to crash and burn.
He's not wrong though. The lifetime staffer bureaucrats love it when newbies come in every four years, green and not knowing how the system works. It's so easy to direct them down the wrong road. It's a system that's in charge, and those who know how the system works have an advantage.
I agree, unfortunately. He should have paid more attention to his health though, because he died and a radical Liberal replaced him. She ran almost entirely on her support of more abortion access. Now if that doesn't tell you about the state of our society...
Abortion is only winning because the pro-Lifers have let the murderers have the "pro-woman" platform. In reality, abortions HURT women and kill some of them. When pro-Lifers have the Basic Christian (Godly) compassion to care about the WOMEN instead of self-righteous %^&!! virtue signaling about the baby, then they will finally win.
Virtue signalling by anybody is an effort to prove how good you are by bad-mouthing somebody else. That is the "fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil." Time we spit that out.
I attended a house fund raising meeting for the campaign of our senator that was seeking reelection after a lifetime of being a senator. I had the opportunity to sit with him along with a handful of people. My question to him was concerning term limits since he had been in office for so long and was not in very good health. He looked at me and laughed. Then he explained that it took him this long to get into a position where he actually had the clout to get things done and it would be ridiculous to just keep bringing people in to start that cycle again each time. I responded that our government was set up so that regular people came in and served, then went back to their life and living. That way we had a variety of citizens serving, lots of opinions and experience being accessed. He looked at me like I had 3 heads and turned away to the next person. Our state senator lives right down the road from me and is a 32nd degree Mason that has been in office for a long, long time. He is like a ghost, nobody ever sees him anywhere except when he shows up at the required meetings at the capitol. These are just my local experiences, I can't fathom the level of corruption at higher levels of government. It seems like the whole system just needs to crash and burn.
He's not wrong though. The lifetime staffer bureaucrats love it when newbies come in every four years, green and not knowing how the system works. It's so easy to direct them down the wrong road. It's a system that's in charge, and those who know how the system works have an advantage.
I agree, unfortunately. He should have paid more attention to his health though, because he died and a radical Liberal replaced him. She ran almost entirely on her support of more abortion access. Now if that doesn't tell you about the state of our society...
Abortion is only winning because the pro-Lifers have let the murderers have the "pro-woman" platform. In reality, abortions HURT women and kill some of them. When pro-Lifers have the Basic Christian (Godly) compassion to care about the WOMEN instead of self-righteous %^&!! virtue signaling about the baby, then they will finally win.
Virtue signalling by anybody is an effort to prove how good you are by bad-mouthing somebody else. That is the "fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil." Time we spit that out.