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Mr. Quackers

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6. Wasn't always that way

Reply to LongtimeAZDem (Original post)

Thu Feb 7, 2019, 11:38 AM

Feb 2019

Folks used to "stand" for office. It was an honor and it meant you had the assent of your community. Many modest men would possibly decline such an honor. It was something of a sacrifice too, given the primitive nature of transport and communication in the United States in its early years.

Keep in mind too, we were an agrarian civilization as late as the end of WWI, some argue.

What we have now has nothing to do with decency, community, or character when looked at overall.

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Politics is, by nature, a dishonest, unseemly business. [View all] LongtimeAZDem Feb 2019 OP

really well written ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #1

We're hiring people, not saints, to do a job. dalton99a Feb 2019 #2

K&R, we should ... NOT ... take sledge hammers to fruit flies every time someones past comes up ... uponit7771 Feb 2019 #3

+1. And don't use capital punishment for every offense. dalton99a Feb 2019 #4

Very good, and to the point. I agree wholeheartedly. Firestorm49 Feb 2019 #5

Wasn't always that way Mr. Quackers Feb 2019 #6

Sure it was; many of the people we hold in historical esteem had very disturbing LongtimeAZDem Feb 2019 #7

Most of the Founders owned slaves, some of them a lot of slaves. Blue_true Feb 2019 #9

I agree. We had KKK official Robert Byrd in Congress for decades... Honeycombe8 Feb 2019 #8