Originally Posted by
Caz5
The really sad part is that simply because of the "family & friends" network, the UNINFORMED and UNEDUCATED general public who do NOT read the Front Page, who do NOT attend City Council meetings, who do NOT care about politics or issues or anything in the City EXCEPT when it DIRECTLY affects them...these people will happily allow signs on their front lawns and will happily vote for whomever they are told to vote for. People like sbs get into office because the status quo have "nested" like fat little hens into their political office, and made good their campaign promises to get wife/son/neice/drinking buddy a token City/School/Housing/Summer job.
Sadly, many people in public office are products of the tight little group of friends and family they represent, and the personalities and moral attitudes of these little groups permeate City Hall and the school district. The friends and family of sbs think, talk, walk the same way she does. They don't know any better because they never have wandered very far from the safety of their group. They go to the same bar. They hang out with the same people. They share the same prejudices, opinions, attitudes, morals, mindset as everyone else in the group. Anything new and different scares the hell out of them! Anything new and different puts them on the defensive and makes them all "twitchy and jerky" because it may require CHANGE