NegativeNull@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 hours agoTim Walz Is Too Good at This. Let me remind everyone that Walz is, in fact, a politician.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTim Walz Is Too Good at This. Let me remind everyone that Walz is, in fact, a politician.www.theatlantic.comNegativeNull@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 hours agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 hours agoThere 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.
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 hour agoThere 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.
Bernie Sanders tho
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.
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.