Sometimes it is just a fine line--
How low can local candidates go to achieve their goal of winning and fighting their way to power? If candidates resort to lying, rumor-mongering and even to personal threats to achieve their goal, how can they be good anymore? Do they not become the bad guy…part of the problem?
Commissioner Jennings said the other afternoon during her acceptance speech that her job was to do what the people want in this City, “not my own personal agenda,” and asked all of us to take her to task if she did not. She mentioned values and ideals. She has always been the champion of civil rights and has been considered highly principled.
We all just have to watch television or read the Post to see examples of political corruption. All those who were responsible for our great democracy were wise beyond their time and their ideals prevail today. What they failed to consider was human nature and how political corruption and personal agendas erode the very ideals that are so important. Actually, how could our forefathers consider it? They were forming a country based on the highest of principles and everyone then was on board.
Power can corrupt those for whom you thought were incorruptible and force you to align yourself with the “bad guys”…the ones who screwed, lied and connived--the guys who use to be what you considered the “good guys.” Who is the lesser of two evils is the question. Some would say it is only compromise and that is something that benefits the greater good. This election left me with the question, “Who is really the good guy?”
You don’t have to be a cheerleader to get your point across. When you’re an anarchist, no rules apply. They respect nothing and no-one but their own agenda. And heaven forbid if you get in the way. We saw this Mack truck barreling down the road during the election.
Sometimes corruption is just a subtle and a fine line and we all can get sucked in, even smart people who have easily dismissed all those who voted and worked in this campaign to affect change---(those who walked the city streets, gave money and voted for a candidate)--- who do we endorse next? The “good guy?”...the “bad guy?”…who in the heck knows. It’s such a fine line.
Commissioner Jennings said the other afternoon during her acceptance speech that her job was to do what the people want in this City, “not my own personal agenda,” and asked all of us to take her to task if she did not. She mentioned values and ideals. She has always been the champion of civil rights and has been considered highly principled.
We all just have to watch television or read the Post to see examples of political corruption. All those who were responsible for our great democracy were wise beyond their time and their ideals prevail today. What they failed to consider was human nature and how political corruption and personal agendas erode the very ideals that are so important. Actually, how could our forefathers consider it? They were forming a country based on the highest of principles and everyone then was on board.
Power can corrupt those for whom you thought were incorruptible and force you to align yourself with the “bad guys”…the ones who screwed, lied and connived--the guys who use to be what you considered the “good guys.” Who is the lesser of two evils is the question. Some would say it is only compromise and that is something that benefits the greater good. This election left me with the question, “Who is really the good guy?”
You don’t have to be a cheerleader to get your point across. When you’re an anarchist, no rules apply. They respect nothing and no-one but their own agenda. And heaven forbid if you get in the way. We saw this Mack truck barreling down the road during the election.
Sometimes corruption is just a subtle and a fine line and we all can get sucked in, even smart people who have easily dismissed all those who voted and worked in this campaign to affect change---(those who walked the city streets, gave money and voted for a candidate)--- who do we endorse next? The “good guy?”...the “bad guy?”…who in the heck knows. It’s such a fine line.
Sucked in