Reply #4: "All politics is local." - Tip O'Neill K&R

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Most people don't concern themselves with politics except in the most cursory way because politics doesn't affect them in personal way. Things change, not because of political "leaders", but because of the currents of history.

When, in in the '60s, some of us were disrupting our college classes to protest another war, one professor (a sympathetic one) told us "The war will end when enough people's children come home in body bags, or the average citizen has to reach for his wallet to pay for it."

He was right.

Now, even more than then, the political establishment seems to most people some distant entity that they have no power over and no stake in.

"A government OF the people.." is a neglected concept. Instead we elect "leaders" and turn the government over to them to run and, inevitably, abuse. Lord Acton was right.

A helluva good rant.