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Quote by: Isherwood  It seems sometimes that honest politicians make people suspicious, more so than openly corrupt ones do. We expect politicians to be greasy, slippery, dishonest. So there's a temptation to suspect that honest politicians are really being dishonest, "they must be covering something up." Not too many nuns live in whorehouses. |
I understand what you're saying. But I think it's duplicitous on the part of the people who believe it. On the one hand, they consider themselves, in effect, morally superior to those who rule them. Yet in the same breath, they are willing to trust those moral inferiors to continue to rule them! It makes little sense to me, at the moment.
- Rob