Washington: Politicians thrive like parasites in the perfidious stench of egotism, affluence, malfeasance, criminality, and hegemony that engulfs any government
Access to money and power leaves few men uncorrupted. Consider the perpetual panoply of political prevaricators who prance before voters when elections are in the offing, describing themselves as dutiful doers of the people’s will. Lexicographer Samuel Johnson more accurately described them as “unnumber’d suppliants” who “crowd Preferment’s gate, athirst for wealth, burning to be great….”
