To answer your wondering, Ebbie...there are plenty of politicians who are relatively selfless (as much so as most people), and do have the genuine interests of the country and people on their minds...but....

The nature of the political and financial system almost ensures that their idealism will be largely blocked, frustrated, and diverted, and that they will be severely compromised in the process.

That happens because everything is determined, in the end, by money, and money has no conscience...nor any credo but this: to have MORE.

A system run by money considerations is one that serves artificial needs, not human needs. It's a form of insanity. You see the results all around you every day of your life.

This was even true in the Communist societies most of the time, despite their pretensions of equality. They too had their privileged and powerful elite.

People can do better than that, because we ARE better than that.