tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868637208708070057.post4008570972667104899..comments2023-10-26T08:39:39.501-04:00Comments on The Global Observer: Where is Cincinnatus?The Global Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799206875756322855noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868637208708070057.post-65792229388498281202012-07-05T12:40:38.053-04:002012-07-05T12:40:38.053-04:00Priyanka Gandhi advised people not to deify politi...Priyanka Gandhi advised people not to deify politicians and vote strictly on the issue of development. “Politics will improve only when you will understand that politicians are your servant," Gandhi said.<br /><br />I see politicians and public servants as two very different characters. The priorities of a public servant put self as last and the constituency as #1 while the inverse is true with most Politicians today, who put themselves above all. This is especially clear with politicians in the United States. Politicians will switch points of view and even parties, if needed, to win their re-election bids. In the U.S. most people holding government jobs are looking out for themselves above those who pay them. Finding a public servant is very hard. <br /><br />As you point out, the problem with the American political system is that party affiliation is central to everything political in the United States. When it comes those who elect the politicians into office they are import as a means to an end --- election or re-election to office. We have seen gerrymandering of districts for various offices only as serving a party and an individual’s election rather than attaining true representation of those who pay the bills (or hold the debt) which politicians create. <br /><br />The problem we really face is by giving politicians more power over the last few years , they now have enough to put the Rule of Law in the United States at risk. This is simply because they don’t respect the rules anymore. Instead they interpret them to meet their needs. This takes place federally, at state levels as well as locally in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our government. <br /><br />A “public servant” is one who serves the public. However, most of those who are called public servants in society today serve themselves and their parties first. In the way society has evolved the Rule of Law it is probably unrealistic to expect public officials to be public servants…they are really politicians. The problem, as you point out so vividly in “Where is Cincinatus?” is that there are too few public servants in our political systems today. The system favors politicians and this is what will destroy the original ideals of the United States as well as many other countries in the World today. <br /><br />From an Ayn Rand philosophy I would pose the question, “Where is John Galt?” it these troubled times.Dave McDonaghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818022085165471170noreply@blogger.com