Ben Dorr, of MGR, lambastes politicians, in St. Paul and in Washington, for their patting each other on the back, praising each other for their decades of selfless, generous, courage public service. These elected officials for life serve themselves, their special interests and their parties as they grow the swamp, ballooning the size of government, its increasing tyranny and intrusion into the private sphere ever expanding.
Dorr is irritated that they leave government service and within 12 months are making high six figure incomes as lobbyist, cashing in on their government connections.
Ben argues that they are only out for themselves, and that is so, but I fear that their selfishness is less an outgrowth of their individualism, than their link to other swamp-dwellers and the machinery of government. They are part of the collective group that grows fat and rich off of government service. They go along to get along, creating the big government monsters, so corrupt, so tyrannical, so omnipresent, so wasteful and so expensive. Their wierd altruism makes the system thrive and spread, and it is almost unstoppable.
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