• BoofStroke@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Nothing wrong with being a politician when you’ve positively contributed in other capacities earlier in life. Career politicians from the start are the problem.

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        There are always exceptions. Unlike most politicians who start their career by networking in college to accumulate potential donors later, Sanders was on the frontline of the civil rights fight.

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          There are plenty of shitty politicians who started later in life. I would be surprised if the majority of politicians were always career politicians.

          Trump for example.

          The problem is that few upstanding people enter into national politics in the US, and the system tends to hinder their attempts to be good people.