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Politicians are mostly depressive (un-impressive)

I really don't like politics. I think this is a normal feeling. I remember coming across this in a book of 20th century photos from Camus personal notebook: "Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics."  from his notebook in 1940.  So nothing new. When you hear them speak, to me, doesn't matter whichever side they sit on, they sound dumb. Yesterday as I was on my 7 minute commute back from lunch I heard a republican senator on one of the NPR shows (I think Here and Now, not positive). He was asked about his views on climate change and it could not have been more sloppy. I can't find the show or who it was so I can't pull the exact quotes, but, unfortunately, I think its a pretty common line (not something he came up with). First, he said he is not naive, climates change. He was from a state that x million years ago was under a glacier. But that cli