Post by kungfuzu on Jan 10, 2024 19:18:43 GMT -8
In case anyone needed to be reminded of the veracity of this thread's title, I will recount a story I heard earlier this week. This was told to me by the lady's father.
As a a teenager the young lady came to a decision as regards the future course of her life. She determined that she would perform well in school, go to university and then to law school. From there she would go to Washington D.C. and after some years become a Senator.
She followed he map and did well in school, went to law school on a scholarship and upon graduation departed for D.C.
She ended up working in some government agency, I believe. After a year or so, she returned to Texas and someone asked her if she was still planning to be a Senator. She replied no, her plans had changed. When asked why, she replied that every politician in D.C. is corrupt. If he isn't corrupt when he first arrives in D.C., he becomes so within six months. Otherwise, he cannot survive. The system will not allow it. Crooks can't afford an honest man among them.
As she didn't want to be corrupt, she gave up on her plans to become a Senator.
And that, boys and girls, is the way things are. It is one of the reasons I sometimes shake my head when people get so hot and bothered about Trump, as if he were the Devil and his political enemies were choir boys.
If further proof were needed of the extreme mendacity of our political class, one would only have to take a look at the abomination that our representatives in the House and Senate are presently trying to pass on spending. Crooks to the left, crooks to the right, crooks as far as the eye can see.
As a a teenager the young lady came to a decision as regards the future course of her life. She determined that she would perform well in school, go to university and then to law school. From there she would go to Washington D.C. and after some years become a Senator.
She followed he map and did well in school, went to law school on a scholarship and upon graduation departed for D.C.
She ended up working in some government agency, I believe. After a year or so, she returned to Texas and someone asked her if she was still planning to be a Senator. She replied no, her plans had changed. When asked why, she replied that every politician in D.C. is corrupt. If he isn't corrupt when he first arrives in D.C., he becomes so within six months. Otherwise, he cannot survive. The system will not allow it. Crooks can't afford an honest man among them.
As she didn't want to be corrupt, she gave up on her plans to become a Senator.
And that, boys and girls, is the way things are. It is one of the reasons I sometimes shake my head when people get so hot and bothered about Trump, as if he were the Devil and his political enemies were choir boys.
If further proof were needed of the extreme mendacity of our political class, one would only have to take a look at the abomination that our representatives in the House and Senate are presently trying to pass on spending. Crooks to the left, crooks to the right, crooks as far as the eye can see.