Hart: Goodbye to Politics
Source: The Huffington Post, 5/31/2011
ASP Chairman, former Senator Gary Hart is a featured author.
By Gary Hart
Sometime back, doesn’t matter exactly when, politics said goodbye to me. I didn’t say goodbye to it. As an avenue for active citizenship, it fundamentally changed.
There was a time, years ago, for no apparent reason of birth or training I had a keen insight into American politics. I understood it about as well as anyone and could practice it about as well as anyone. Then, everything began to change.
Instead of politics as an avenue for service, it became a road to wealth. Instead of the means to define the national interest, it became a career and a stepping stone to behind the scenes influence. Instead of a noble ideal, it became a battleground for hard core ideologues looking for a fight.
I am not naive…
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