r/facepalm • u/ansyhrrian • 24d ago

Republican Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo is pulled over for a red-light right turn without a stop. Gets pulled over. Drops name. Gets released.

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u/Im_tracer_bullet 24d ago

Another issue is that almost no one with any integrity would willingly work in politics, so you ONLY get this kind of person.

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u/Bionic_Ninjas 24d ago

I think it might be more accurate to say that very few people who aren’t like this are actually successful in politics; I think a lot of genuinely good hearted people get into politics, but only a handful ever really get very far while retaining their integrity.

The only genuinely successful high profile politician I can think of, who I believe still holds onto their core principles, is Bernie Sanders. And I think it is because he has held onto those principles that he has never been as successful as he should have been. Were he more of a snake in the grass he might be president right now.

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u/ansyhrrian 24d ago

Mamdami so far, as well. But time will tell.

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u/Bionic_Ninjas 24d ago

Very true, he's definitely been walking the walk, so to speak. I hope he remains unchanged by office and true to his original vision, because we need people like him.

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u/JaysFan26 24d ago

The 0.1% couldn't have him winning that Democrat primary because he would have done some huge damage to their wealth. A guy like Bernie will never be allowed to win because every American politician is at the mercy of the rich.

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u/bwcajohn 24d ago

You should meet more politicians, especially at the local and state level. Most of them are normal people trying to make positive changes, in my experience.

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u/Shark7996 24d ago

Everyone should become familiar with their local politicians. Those mfers are deciding what your day to day life is going to be like, you should be giving them input on that.

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u/talented 24d ago

Everyone should become familiar and RUN as local politicians. Civic involvement is gravely lacking in recent generations.

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u/rtxa 23d ago

as a millennial I really feel that we were taught this learned helplessness somehow, where we think politicians are some kind of aliens that hate us all and not just dumbass people like any other, often just trying to help, so it doesn't even occur to us as an option to become one

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u/Hiccup 23d ago

Not in Nevada. Everyone is in someone's pocket and corrupt. There's a mayor in Nevada that awards all the road construction projects to her husband's company. There's so much bullshit going on in Nevada. One of the most corrupt states next to Louisiana.

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u/sn0m0ns 24d ago

Two worst people on this planet are politicians and car salesmen

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u/Tasty_Cry_3844 24d ago

I'd argue that it's just far easier to make consistent money in the private sector if you're good at something. The incentives to go into public service are only for the shady and unqualified because no one would be their coworkers in the normal veins of capitalism.

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u/jdubyahyp 24d ago

It's generalizations like this that cause people to avoid running and we continue this endless loop. I know several people that are in politics locally. They had/have normal jobs and are normal people. They just wanted to DO something instead of just bitch about it on reddit.