The problem with the Democrats is they are trying to put lipstick on a pig, but they have 50 pigs and only one lipstick.
President Biden will have big shoes for the Democrats to fill but filling his other end is what many worry about. He’s not worried about the deficit – it’s big enough to look out for itself.
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he’s the only one who can save the ship. There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small influence and reason and honest goodwill exert upon events in the political field. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. It is a good thing that we don’t get all the politics that we pay for. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln
Democrats are the party that said government doesn’t work and then get elected and prove it. “Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” – Ronald Reagan
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter
“Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.” – Plato
“An honest public servant can’t become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S Truman
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
An election is coming. Let your voices be heard.