Honesty in Politics - In Which Lifetime?

Not long ago, an individual contacted me and weand independence from an overgrown and bloated
discussed politics. Like most folks we both hadgovernment on the verge of dictatorship," well
different ideas on human politics, and anspoken indeed, I applaud his caring and concern,
abundance of talking points covering our differentdon't we all feel this same way? And I told him; "I
views. Interestingly enough, we both agreed thatam sure you are not alone in those goals or that
we need more integrity in the political arena, thatassessment."
is to say; more honest in politics. Still, thatStill, how on Earth are we going to get honesty in
sounded counter-intuitive, so I say said to mypolitics if we keep electing the best liars into
acquaintance in a cynical snicker;office? If there is no honesty in the election
Honesty in politics, surely you jest, in whichprocess, then how in the world are we going to
lifetime were you expecting this to occur?have honorable men (or women) in office? The
You see, as he mentioned honesty in politics,reality is that politics is a rotten way to run
wow, so how would we go about that? Has therehuman affairs, and yet, this is what we've
ever been in the history of mankind honest indesigned for ourselves, and unfortunately for us;
politics? Don't get me wrong, I love concept, justit's not working very well - is it?
seems problematic with humans involved is all. HeNo, it really isn't so, something must be done,
said without honest in politics we are doomed tobecause if we continue this process and keep
repeat,expecting different results, well, that's just the
He also stated; "I'm the father of three veryproverbial definition of insanity then isn't it? Yes,
successful, independent adults and three grandindeed it is. Please consider all this.
children. I want to help preserve their freedoms