• CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I hear this argument a lot. “Voters should be trusted.”

    Voters gave us Trump.

    Once you have power, you don’t want to let it go. It doesn’t matter if you are elected every two years or every four. You have power and as you stay in office you accumulate more and more power. In theory it’s to help your constituents but in the end it corrupts.

    We can decide that that people shouldn’t be career politicians. We can go encourage these people that they can still serve the public by doing other things besides holding office.