Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday that America “is not sending their best and brightest” to represent them in Congress. “Sometimes you literally just can’t believe like, these people are mak…

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    Well, he is not wrong. They send politicians there instead of people who actually had a job, who had to work for a living, who actually have experience of being a normal citizen.

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      I for one don’t think there is a single thing wrong with the idea of a professional politician. The problem is the legalized bribery that comes in the form of campaign donations.

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        Agreed. If you have extremely inexperienced politicians, your end result is that they are easily manipulated by whatever or whoever gets to whisper in their ear, like said lobbyists.

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      Like the representative from Nebraska’s 2nd, the coward Don Bacon.

      He was an air force general prior to running for office, so I imagine he had a spine. He tipped well and was nice in person, but then he ran for office, and is now the biggest coward a man could ever see.