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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 09:42 AM
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6. Power and Politics - Addiction to Sex and Power?
This article is about the fact that, unfortunately, many of our country's leaders are motivated by their addictions to power, approval, sex, and control.

Many of the leaders in our society are operating as wounded children, run by their addictions to approval, sex, power and control. Few truly healthy individuals want to put themselves through what a politician has to go through to run for office - the verbal abuse both given and received, the huge amounts of money spent, the integrity sacrificed through the concessions, lies and manipulations offered in order to win. Our system of electing our officials is so corrupt that there is little possibility of attracting a person with a strong, personally responsible, integrious loving Adult. Few people of integrity are willing to put themselves through what they have to go through to win. This is not to say that none of our elected representatives are honest and caring. There certainly are many, but they are, unfortunately, a minority.


Do you agree that we knowingly participate in the political process that repeatedly create these soulless creatures?
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