Why Politicians Misbehave

[AlbertaFarmer5]

This is my wife's theory. The people who really run the show need politicians with skeletons in the closet, to blackmail them into supporting their agenda. So the nomination process is corrupted to allow them to only choose candidates with secrets they can later exploit.

Personally, I don't believe most of the conspiracy theories, why invent an intricate conspiracy to explain gross incompetence. But with the disproportionate number of politicians involved in scandals, makes you wonder.

[oneoff]

How about "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

[perfecho]

Totally....and after awhile, people get "full of themselves"...especially when minions run around and say how great thou art...lobbyists wine and dine and say how great thou art ....all the kings men say how great thou art...their world becomes much different than the average Joe...and it's Joe's problem, because he didn't work hard.......