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That's like asking "why are you not a criminal?" Some of us enjoy doing honest work for a living.

Unless you have drank from the kool aid and believe politics to be a force for good and change; in that case it'll be hard to convince you otherwise.

[api]

This is why we have grifters and fools running our country. Nobody aspires to political office anymore. It’s a huge problem given that the state has a monopoly on force, because this means a bunch of grifters and fools get a monopoly on force.

[sph]

You need to be a grifter to lie through your teeth to get elected, and a fool to believe you won't be corrupted by power.