Politics or billionaires: choose your entertainment
>I assume that most people go into politics because they genuinely
> want to do good, but to get to any real position of power they have
>to spend so long fighting the machine that all sense of good is
>destroyed in them
Being a cynic, I assume that some start with a mild veneer of wanting to do good which is easily shed as the lure of imagined (*) power tempts them to trade fragile fragments of morality.
Others have no doubt from the start whose interest will direct their political careers.
(*) Imagined because once they've been assimilated into the swamp they find that they are controlled by the Borg mind and can influence, let alone control, very little indeed except whether to wear a jacket over an England shirt and whether to wear a hard hat as well as a hi-vis jacket. Thus the would-be mighty fall as the Ides of March grind the sausage-meat of politics.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
