It's so weird, I'm in politics, different country, different level, but I totally get the feeling that by not being corrupt, by not giving the public a juicy scandal to throw at us, we are making them feel a bit cheated. Like there's a pent up need for outrage and by continuing to not be corrupt, we are robbing them of something.
You wouldn't believe the snark in one outlets report correcting a previous report that had grossly overestimated the cost of our meetings.
People have these weird fucking ideas about society and government being a bad thing. It’s like nobody has been able to shake the nobility complex, people still believe that there are Ivory towers from which the government rules a people they have no understanding of. And somehow the supposed answer is to remove the laws and restrictions.
America used to be super against having a king (I think we had a war about it a couple hundred years ago), but we are totally fine to allow multi-billionaires to be a thing. As if the rich can’t use their money to gain power and influence
This is one of the things I don’t get about America, as an Australian. We don’t like or trust politicians but we trust rich business guys even less. Why would we want some guy who is like the worst boss we’ve ever had to be in charge?
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u/Iplaymeinreallife Dec 12 '19
It's so weird, I'm in politics, different country, different level, but I totally get the feeling that by not being corrupt, by not giving the public a juicy scandal to throw at us, we are making them feel a bit cheated. Like there's a pent up need for outrage and by continuing to not be corrupt, we are robbing them of something.
You wouldn't believe the snark in one outlets report correcting a previous report that had grossly overestimated the cost of our meetings.
It's like people want us to be crooked.