About That Political Process Thing

It is hard to recruit good candidates for office. There's too much negative to counterbalance the positive. Anyone who would want to run is subjected to distortions of anything they have said, having to defend the most minor infractions, and having their whole lives under microscopic scrutiny. And corporate interests own the political process; anyone who tries to fight that usually becomes not much more than a placeholder unless they are exceptional.

This is unfortunate, because it means that the natural order of things dictate that decent, caring people with good motives are naturally driven away from politics. And people who have deep needs to abuse power, plunder resources to fill their pockets and take advantage of people, are drawn toward it.