joe rybicki dot com  Main menu:  search this site    Dear
Republican candidates: This is why we don’t take you seriously
“It’s just a theory.”              You do believe in gravity,
right?    1: AMB on November 7, 2011 at 7:20 pm  While I’m not
old enough to have voted in that many elections, it seems to me
that most of prospective politicians say are all just cynical
attempts to gather votes. The platform they run on, the things
they say in debates and stump speeches, and the positions they
espouse on various issues are all poorly correlated with the
things they do when they’re actually in office.  President Obama
is an excellent example of this. He took several noble positions
during his candidacy that he’s since either conveniently ignored
or explicitly reversed course on.  Now this is not to slag Obama
specifically. The problem, I feel, is endemic to the political
class as a whole, and is a result of perverse incentives.
Namely: our system and society reward cynical pandering and
don’t reward principl