The Cocooning of Kyrsten Sinema

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11. Yes, the money's on the right because that's where the corruption is.

(Corruption in terms of building personal wealth and power.) Even on the right, though, only dysfunctional crooks would choose to chase illegal money while in politics when there's incredibly more to be picked up legally in private life.

So I really don't think it's about money for Sinema, who could have been amassing incredibly more by serving business in business. She may well want more now that she's older and until so recently didn't have any, but that's normal and different.

Politics itself is about power and/or ideology. McConnell's very famously in politics for power, while Biden equally famously has spent his life serving the people and has always refused to own stocks or bonds to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest. Neither even cared about it for most of their careers, though McConnell's now rolling in wealth laundered through his Chinese billionaire's-daughter wife.