Why? Because so many of these pols are monumental narcissists.
Time to attack the base assumption that fuels putting these people in power.
That erroneous assumption is “all people are basically good”.
NO, they AREN’T. All people are basically wicked, flawed sinners.
And giving them too much power is a recipe for misery.
I charge FReepers with this grand commission - destroy the concept of the basic “goodness” of mankind wherever you encounter it. This erroneous assumption is the basis of all ideological error and human misery.
As are their wives, and their girlfriends.
A magnification of the public.
I've been happily married for 15, going on 16 years. Has it all been happy? No. Has it all been exciting? No. Has it all been fun and games? Definitely, no.
Raising kids is work. Keeping a relationship healthy and bound by trust is work. Maintaining a functioning, clean and tidy household is work. Meeting the bills and striving towards goals is work. Sustaining love and igniting passion is work.
But at the end of the day, there is enduring love between my husband and I, with passion to spare. There is the overwhelming love that rises in my heart when I kiss my sleeping babies before going to bed. There are laughs so hard I'm crying, inside jokes no one else in the world will understand, a whole dresser full of pictures and paper cards with precious writing, "I love you, Mommy" on them, and peace.
So, based on my experience, marriage is the PERFECT place to find lasting happiness. Guess that blows this woman's theory out of the water!