Politics, by the nature of the beast, is a set of unholy alliances bound only with the tissue strength ethics of people more enamored with power than public service
I found a quote from the bible while scanning “Dear Prudence”, Emily Yoffe’s advice column. She advised a man on how he should deal with a family of devout Christians after having decided he’d lost his faith. The correspondent signed off with the name: “the whitewashed tomb”.