>>7795795>>7795837>>7795947>>7796085Now I know this isn't /pol/, and really there is no reason to carry on this discussion here, but I have to ask you anons a question I bring up with others pretty often to see what anyone else thinks.
I'm sure every one of us has been dissatisfied with the state of our local or national politics at one point or another, and you're presumably from some western democratic/republican government, like the U.S., where there is really nothing stopping you or I from making real efforts to become involved in politics ourselves except maybe the know-how to do so. I'm sure we've all at one point entertained the idea of becoming a politician to try and change the game ourselves, but that leads me to thinking other people have surely already become politicians to do the same thing themselves. So then if that must be the case, why do these people not stand out more? It could not be possible for the government to be so incredibly corrupt that not a single person in politics has any good intentions. Since this must also be the case, why do such people not show up more in the upper-levels of politics?
I have some of my own theories. One is that they are there, but the political climate of the world today favors people who are loud and boisterous because they're the ones who grab attention. One I'm less inclined to believe is that you simply have to be a scumbag or else you won't succeed.
I don't know. It just leads me back to thinking that there's no way in our modern systems that every single person is corrupt and irredeemable. There has to be better explanations.
