The Mary Robinson/Norma Foley tone

valoren wrote: »

There are two types of people. Those, with healthy self-esteem, who hear words like espouse, moght not understand what it means but look it up and learn something new. Then there are those who hear the same word, don't understand it and, in their insecurity, determine that the person uttering such words are full of themselves or passive-aggrrssively mocking and belittling them.

So many big words there:

self-esteem = how they feel inside about themselves.
insecurity = a bit shaky
uttering = speaking or saying, like.
passive-agressive = being a w---ker
belittling = making people feel like sh1te.

Why would you make it illegal. She was elected by a constituency.

The main reason people who have politicians as relatives tend to find their way into politics is that it's just obvious to them that you can go out, campaign and get elected. They're not just dropped in by their parent or whatever. They just know how to run a campaign.

If we want to get feilds opened up to broader choices of candidates, we need to get people more involved in politics earlier and that's up to political parties' culture. Eg: still have abysmally poor female representation, which seems to be entirely down to party culture.

The biggest issue at the moment is that if you stand you're torn apart by social media viciousness. I've seen a few people from a range of political points of view and parties take their first steps into local government, get their fingers badly burnt by how they were treated online and decide they'd be better off just going back to being a teacher, running a shop, being an accountant or whatever it was that they usually do. The world seems to hate politicians who just came from grass roots these days and prefers nice non-politicians, who won bigly on social media like Trump.

Hold politicians to account, but at the same time realise they're mostly (not all) very decent, normal people putting themselves out there to represent their communities and improve things and that applies to the whole spectrum from independents to the full range of parties on the left, the centre and the right. You might not agree with them all but the vast majority of them are out there with good motives.

We're rapidly getting to a stage where nobody in their right mind would stand as a politician. We're not quite there yet but we're on that path. The US is much further ahead and look what you end up with: a whole load of high office holderd who either aren't in their right mind or who are in office for all the wrong reasons.

veryangryman wrote: »

How do people end up speaking in such an out of touch wiyh the common man and woman tone.

Saying words you'd only see written down like "espousing"

I can't describe it well (being a common man etc) but when you hear them speak and the way they present themselves youd see it

Are there special schools they goto to get like that. It's like the rod up their butt has a rod up its butt

I like that they don’t dumb it down. It would be worse if they assumed that the general public were too lumpen to understand big words. My friends used to tease me for sounding like I “swallowed a dictionary” in school. Maybe they could crack a book every once in a while?