Outro from Peter Joseph's Radio Blog: George Carlin (Repository)
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Now there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about it:
politicians.
Everybody complains about politicians - everybody says "They suck!"
But where do the people think these politicians come from?
They don't fall out of the sky,
they don't pass through a membrane from another reality,
they come from american parents and american families, american homes,
american schools, american churches, american businesses and american universities
and they are elected by american citizens...
this is what we have to offer,
it's what our system produces:
garbage in, garbage out!
If you have selfish ignorant citizens you're going to get self-ignorant leaders,
to turn anything to any good you just go to wind up a new bunch of selfish ignorant americans.
So maybe,
it's not the politicians who suck.
Maybe something else sucks around here, like:
the public.
Because if it's really just the fault of these politicians,
then where are all the other bright people of conscience?
Where are all the bright honest intelligent americans ready to step in
and save the nation and lead the way?
We don't have people like that in this country.
Everybody's at the mall,
scratching his ass, picking his nose, taking his credit card out of his fanny-pack
and buying a pair of sneakers with lights in them.
It's what our system produces.
It's what OUR SYSTEM produces.