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Their job is to express the will and goals of the people they represent.

Citizens United has entered the chat

The political system is inherently set up for politicians to compromise for their self-interest — because money. For personal profit and/or to get re-elected. There was a decent New Yorker article I read on the matter a few years ago that suggested something along the lines that, even if a politician begins their career with the best intentions, the process of getting elected for higher and higher offices erodes those intentions. That’s even if they had any decent intentions to begin with, of course.

That’s a rather stunning drop

That tracks with the Third Reich, actually

I wish more news and op-eds were structured like this