So Hillary Will Attend the Inauguration

[dionysus]

144. It doesn't strike a nerve, i think the tremendous wealth gap between

Politicians and rheir constituents means they can never truly relate to working people, ever, if they were born that way, or after a while, if they were not rich at the beginning of their career.

It doesn't mean having money is bad, per se (notice the roosevelts, kennedies, and kerries were not tainted by wealth), it just means they are almost from a different world entirely. That makes it hard for them, if not imlossible, to know what it's like for everybody else. Mot just the money itself, it's being in that bubble. You never drive yourself atound, never go shopping, in cases never truly go out in public (without an entourage of security).

Remember a big thing that sunk papa bush, they tried to humanize him, and threw him out into the public... the poor bastard had never seen a grocery scanner before, he was amazed by the thing... he had no idea what things cost... it made a huge difference. People knew he was so out of touch with the common person, there was no way on earth he could relatw to them

I'm not saying every politician is *that* bad, but it affects them all, in one way or another.

That's where i was going with it.

A different issue that relates to money is, there's also a lot of people who have made a career in government, but it's not to help people or be responsible steward of government...

For some it's as simple as being able to affect their business interests, to make money. Get into power so you can lower your taxes, or deregulate the industry you are a part of (mostly a rethuglican trait)

For others, it could be personal ambition, or ego driven. Some people view life as a meritocracy; you are only as good as the highest rung on the ladder you stand on. They like trappings of government, the respect it commands (this could be any party). This may even have benevolent intentions. Even if you're a good guy, it takes a HELL of a lot of ego to think that you are, above all other Americans, best suited to lead the country. That's elitist by nature. There are some, not many but some, people who are solely in the game to serve the interests of the nation, but they become rarer and rarer the higher you go in government.

The worst ones, IMHO; once you've gotten to a certain level of wealth, there is only on thing that trumps money, and that is power. The power trippers who get off on ruling peoples lives, telling them what they can and can't do. Imagine the power they feel, when they can limit the reproductive choices of women, or tell people who they can or can't marry! There's nothing better than that to them, having concrete control of people's actions in such a personal issue.

That whole second half of the post has nothing to do with what we were talking about but i got on a roll typing, my bad