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Originally Posted by KTrain
In general, it seems that if you stay in politics long enough you become a bad person. More concerned with staying in power and keeping your job, than doing good for the people you're representing. Doesn't matter the party you're involved with.
The idealistic, young politicians can go into it with the best of intentions but it seems that most fall into the power and don't want to give it and the paycheques up.
I'm sure there are outliers on both sides (people who can stay idealistic and those who never were and just wanted the power/fame/$$$) but they're few and far between.
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We are entitled to our entitlements. Its a pretty strong draw to get people into politics. Work a couple of terms get a juicy pension. Its the one job where there's literally no KPI, all you need to do is have some charisma, and the ability to read out some well crafted points to get past the only accountability that there is which is your voters. Your track record doesn't matter. And that's the seductive nature of politics.
I'm voting for the Rhino's whenever the next election happens. I have this fantasy of a grass roots movement that creates a perfect political tornado where the Rhino Party wins a minority government.