Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
marct,There is no system and thats the problem as Ken points out there are at least two competing political systems that only want to get there people elected or re-elected and then there is the third system that steals all the cookies and milk from the country no matter who gets elected
Hey Slap, that's the system I was talking about . Compare how political, "civilian", leaders are judged as being acceptable at a social level between the current US system and, say, Rome (look at the cursus honorum).

Cheers,

Marc