Quote:You obviously missed my point entirely.  Your insult aside allow me to attempt to explain my statement.  A statesman has an outside interest besides political office and advancement.  He/she has roots in the community that they represent as well as an interest at to how the country fares.  A politician on the other hand has but one concern in life, getting re-elected.  They have limited knowledge of the working class, have not had a real job in several years and consider what goes on inside the beltway as real life. 

 

Dictatorship?  Geesh how did you arrive to that conclusion?

 

As to my knowledge concerning democracy, our form of government as laid out by our founding fathers is a representative republic.  You may want to look that up.

 

I'm sorry, but you're just bloviating here. Are you Madame Ruby? You know which Reps. and Senators "has an interest at how the county fares" and which ones don't? Let me guess - the ones that agree with you are the "statesmen" and the ones that don't are the ones that only care about getting reelected. Funny how that works.

 

You don't seem to want a representative republic (I looked it up!). You want a House of Lords.

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