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The Problem With Representative Democracy
The longer someone is in office, the more there are pressures to make compromises. And so even if you don't succumb to it, which everyone does, then you're not going to be there for very long. I feel like it's really a good intuition pump for people, because we all shod on social democrats all the time. The position is self justifying, basically, self perpetuating. They perpetuate themselves. They perpetuate their own power.