The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
? Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
No sane person WANTS to rule others. Only Narcissistic Sociopaths actually want the job. And that is why politicians constantly fail us. We really would be better picking 30 people out of a phone book and running a primary on them.
Remember when Fred Thompson ran and everyone dismissed him because he "didn't want it bad enough" ? I liked him all the more at that point. That is the sort of person we need in office. The kind that doesn't really want to do it, but sees it as an unpleasant duty or obligation- something they have to do otherwise the narcissistic sociopaths will get the job. John Adams urged John Quincy Adams into politic because he knew thwe sort of man who would do the job if men like John Quincy didn't.
Its all moot now anyway. There will be no help coming from that quarter. The elections are rigged, the NSA will be used to control anyone who gets out of line, and no one in office has an incentive to do the right thing in regards to the debt. This is going to have to run its course. The politicians are all now just Kabuki theater and we are strapped to our seats waiting for the show to end.
