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Originally posted by JenMax:
Question? When was the most recent US presidental election held in which a person not born and reared in the upper classes of society ran for and was elected to the US presidency?
Oh, it's not a hereditary aristocracy. Bill Clinton was a poor boy from the depths or Arkansas. But he had to suck-up to thousands and thousands of people who already had the money he needed to run his campaigns. Thus, he had to make promises to do things that would benefit them. Each and every congressman or senator also has to make so many promises and get into so many 'deals' that they are basically unable to act on their own sense of right and wrong by the time they get into office -- if they still HAVE a sense of right and wrong by then. Government is totally about power brokering now. Even if it always has been
mainly about power brokering, there used to be the occasional outbreak of morality in the old days before mass-media dominated politics.