My female favorite character in any television I saw this year was the lead in a foreign drama. She wasn’t the brightest bulb in the pack but she was earnest, hard working, and determined (the new boss said that he didn’t work with anyone with long hair, implying women without saying it. So, she cut her hair).
She didn’t sleep with anyone (ended up dating a coworker-but there was tons to this) or do anything to compromise her integrity except create some creative living quarters.
I wish we had shows with roles like this.
I have been championing the “virtues” idea for the last few years in politics these days...
If the voting public is not ready to fully understand the term, much less hold their candidates and incumbents to a very simple concept, then it is no real stretch to understand why our country is in the current social, much less economic teeter-totter we are in right now...
If you are not prepared to say YOU were wrong all these years and not ready to hold the political “leaders” in a particular political party accountable for the trash they keep foisting upon us, then I have nothing but the highest cynicism and general pessimism for those that just keep plodding along and accepting this as “just they way it is in politics” these days...
I would just assume fire them all, and start over, even the ones I like that might even be doing the “right” thing, regardless of their personal political future...Those people would understand and accept this concept...
But hey, the real trick is to get the voters to admit this deficiency and do their homework and fix their own houses first...
Waiting on the “But Steve, you’d fire Ted Cruz???”
Yep, in a heartbeat...And not because I want to be mean and do not think he is NOT doing his job, the way he said he would before he was elected...
No, those that get this concept WILL bounce back and be electable right out of the gate...they know they have credible, tangible and most agreeable positions to recover those offices...
The politicians this would effect most are the ones we know do not fit the ideas of personal sacrifice and virtue so desperately needed to correct the path this country is on right now...And the voters that support them, not holding them to a basic standard of moral, and “virtuous” existence...