[Hoot Gibson]

I don't disagree with your good post here. Politics is rough and tumble. So is human nature. I think most of the time a society gets the politicians that reflect its values, its inner core, for lack of a better way of putting it.

When the electoral process is fair, then I agree that people get the government that they deserve. We do not have a fair system in this country. The system is rigged, although not in the way that Donald Trump claims it is rigged.

Arcane campaign finance laws and the way that Congressional district lines are just two ways that the system is rigged against good people who would make excellent representatives but lack the finances to run a competitive campaign. I really have no issue with how political parties run their internal affairs - how they nominate candidates, for example. My beef is the way that the parties pass laws that give their own candidates a built in electoral advantage by unreasonably restricting ballot access for third party candidates and challengers to incumbents of their own parties.

Their is an longstanding and ongoing conspiracy between our two major political parties to make sure that the two-party system is never threatened. Federal and state governments should be working to ensure a fair electoral process for all eligible candidates, but that is not happening. We are slowly but surely moving toward a banana republic.

The manner in which Hillary Clinton has managed to evade justice for acts that would have landed an average citizen in prison would have shocked George Orwell. The Clintons are our version of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos - and that criticism may be unfairly harsh to the Marcos family.