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Prometheus said:
I don't know, Jerry. While that sounds perfectly rational, and inline with reality, I'm thinking that's a bit too liberal for this forum. Also, there HAS to be more to it than that, right? It can't be that simple, can it?




No, it is NOT that simple, but what I said does have something to do with it.

Things are set up so that a person must have a certain amount of education to enter politics. Many politicians start off as lawyers and then run for Mayor, Governer, etc.
This is their springboard into politics.

It takes a LOT of money to go to college, and then law school...and an ENORMOUS amount of money to run for office : ie, Ads, campaign sloguns, tv space, billboards, signs, etc.

Poor or middle class folks just don't have the capital for such a venture. It's a damn shame, too, because there are probably many poor - working class people who would make fine presidents. I would love to see a poor or middke class black man become president...NOT just to have a black president for the sake of having one, but, hey, isn't it about time?

"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your

death bring you the peace you never found in

life." - Tuvok.