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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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when that damn breaks it's going to be tsunami on both sides of the aisle. Franken has been an advocate for women's rights his whole life. If he is guilty, many many more on both sides of the aisle I'm sure are guilty. We have known for 1,000's of years that power corrupts people. This is just the latest reminder of that truism.