THE STREAM (pay no attention to the screaming man behind the screen)

Recently while watching one of the news programs from the homeland and during one of the segments on politics I began to think, as the camera panned across a room of full figured politicians... Would America ever elect an obese president? ... Again. You may be thinking that president W.H Taft was quite a large politico but that was a long time ago and on an almost entirely different planet.   The reality these days is for even a slightly overweight person to even run for the office is unthinkable. There was a large form politician here in Australia that thought himself "fit" for the job of Prime Minister but for some reason he just couldn't quite get there ... eventually off he went to the political fat farm ( yeah I know there is probably not really a political fat farm but I like to think there is ) so he returns to the world of politics still a bit over the weight limit ... so no brass ring.  Listen, for my money I say there has never been a qualifie...

Just recently, I read a tweet with a link to a list of the top political leaders and it got me thinking ... how did we get here? To my mind it is quite backwards to think of politicians as leaders, really at this point in history I hardly think this need be stated. It is not their job to lead, to set moral guidelines, or to set the course of the nation... it is their job to listen! to listen to us, the people, it is our job to be involved & to watch carefully what they do. This next bit sounds like a bad thing but really it's not so read carefully... We are not supposed to trust politicians! not because they are bad people but simply because they are...PEOPLE. I am not saying that you can't trust people, of course you can but you need to have a realistic assessment of their nature ( by the way... this is almost impossible the way we live today but maybe we'll get to that later) this is the reason why the story of the scorpion & the frog rings so true. We can...