2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: NPR Interview with Clinton Emerges: ‘My Roots Are Conservative, I’m Proud I Was a Goldwater Girl’ [View all]HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Criminal justice, and common decency, demand that even obvious criminals get the benefit of an attorney charged to make the best defense that can be made. Of course, lawyers do what they see as work, to promote their self-interest.
That same model is at work in politics. Where you can find a large class of politicians who behave similarly. They know that government demands the presence of politicians and they take on the work while promoting their self-interests.
It's generally pretty easy to find such people who from very modest beginnings, and long lives doing little other than politics become rather luxuriously, if not fabulously, wealthy.
Such people are vulnerable to influence of clients, with better paying clients frequently having more influence.
People need to be very careful about what they think of and accept as evolution. Change that is apparent can just be involvement in causes that promote personal interest.
The trajectory of the evolving that takes place can suggest that the selection pressure at work is forcing a general arc toward fame and wealth.