• Babalugats@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    “You will not speak on Flock tonight,” he responds. “One person designated. You can pick that person … if I gave everyone three minutes to say the same thing, which is opposition to Flock, we’d never get done … I’ve spoken. I’m not debating this.”

    Only politicians can be that arrogant. imagine forgetting how the fuck you got into that seat in the first place. Ironically, it’s the same reason that he thinks that one person can speak on behalf of everyone else.

    Voting for somebody to make your decisions for you is crazy. But expecting that same person to agree with everything that you want is just insane.

    Even with that in mind, arrogant pricks like this guy still seem to be able to berate their constituents and remain confident that they will get re-elected.

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      Only politicians can be that arrogant.

      Have you never heard C-suite and/or millionaires talk? They all sound like that - that’s what unearned power sounds like.

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        Yeah, I think the exact phrase is something like “it takes a politician to be that arrogant” I think it stems from:

        “Politi­cians are like mon­keys in that ‘the higher they climb, the more revolt­ing are the parts they expose’.” (Gwilym Lloyd George)

        But yes, the inherited wealthy (which includes politicians too) are the same. Nowhere more apparent than in the US.

        But it never ceases to amaze and infuriate me, how arrogant politicians become, particularly to the very people that they’ll be meeting - cap in hand, begging for their vote with every excuse under the sun and telling them lies that they think they want to hear, just to get elected again, so that they can, once again berate those very people.