Here are two politically based one-shots, i.e. unfinished sentences I wrote in 1992 that didn't elicit many responses or received one answer that stood out:
According to Charles Colson, former special counsel to President Richard Nixon, "The painful fact is, the will is not morally neutral. The greatest myth of our time is that people are basically good. It's not true. We are bent toward evil." Colson's assertion is valid (or invalid) because...
...(valid) I think we are all bent toward evil. We spend our lifetime trying to resist that pull against what it morally right. Life would be too easy if everyone was innately a good person. It is a challenge for people to resist that evil urge. Colson just failed resisting that urge and doing what is right. (Erica C.)
In The Selling Of The President 1968, Joe McGinniss writes, "Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game. The American voter, insisting upon his belief in a higher order, clings to his religion, which promises another, better life, and defends passionately the illusion that the men he chooses to lead him are of finer nature than he. It has been traditional that the successful politician honor this illusion. To succeed today, he must embellish it. Particularly if he wants to be President." This illusion has been followed (or ignored), considering that...
...(followed) Our public casts the illusion of being ignorant mice waiting for the piper to come lead us to great things. Then, once everything is over, we start bitching about every decision that is made...Illusion is what the entire political system, as well as our entire world, is based upon. Politics is just another business. (Sean B.)
