About politicians and their self-interest: Didn't the novelist, Gore Vidal--I heard him say he is a distant relative of Al Gore--write that there is only one party in the USA, the "Property Party"? It is made up of two wings. One is called the republican wing; the other is the democrat wing. Both wings are owned and operated by the big corporations.

BTW, IMHO, this is probably true for most so-called democracies.

G~O~D--Now & ForeverIS:Nature, Nurture & PNEUMA-ture, Thanks to Warren Farr&ME AT www.unitheist.org