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the system is such that the only incentive career politicians (and we don't have other kind anymore) is the campaign. they make the same money if they lose. why would they win? its a lot more work! they just have to keep it at a minimum to be considered for next campaigns.

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You don't get up the ranks over years and decades by not caring.

Politics is not foremost about money, but about power. You can make a lot of money, obviously, but the driver is power.

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alternatively you don't get on the bigger tickets actually fighting for change. so?

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Yeah, for the GOP. Just listen to """centrist""" democrats for 10 minutes: these people don't care al all about winning. They don't care that a pedophile oligarch is doing irreversible damage to the union, day after day. In fact, they spend more time and energy fighting the left-wing instead of the right, because they, progressives, are an actual threat to their business model of getting paid handsomely for losing to fascists and letting them do what they want.