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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I spent a semester in Jefferson City and with that time, so went any aspirations I had for public office.
There were maybe 10 State Reps there I left respecting of the 163 in office (and dozens of whom I interacted with). That modicum of power in an area saturated with it led to pretty gross shit all across the board. Many of the people I was there with 15 years ago have ascended to the state Senate or even statewide office.
Politicians end up terrible people. And I'm not convinced they started that way; a couple of the guys I respected the hell out of ended up embroiled in shit a few years later. That environment is just so immersed in scuz that it's virtually impossible to walk away clean.
I can't imagine how rotten DC is.
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Yeah. I asked a friend of mine whose opinion I value if he thought anything would actually change in DC and his response was poignant, “nobody gets to that high of position without being crooked.”
I would anticipate that would extend past DC to include many other industries.