Little Hawk, I can hardly begin to tell you how utterly I reject your hypothesis of government.

I assume you are saying that 'they' are a hydra-headed monster that is replenished annually by more tentacled venomous beings. But your "they" is an amorphous creation that has little - very little - to do with real human beings.

And it is real human beings who are in government. Human beings with ideals and pragmatics, human beings who are inefficient and shortsighted as well as on blessed occasions capable of glorious plans and outcomes, human beings who try and fail and sometimes stop trying, human beings who are selfish and sometimes selfless, human beings who stumble and fall, human beings who struggle on valiantly.

You prefer to believe that these same human beings are vicious characters interested only in power and wealth. I assume you would say that they enter government with fairly clean skirts but then discover how the "real world" works and abandon everything except the pretense of service.

No. I reject it.

Not only that- I think my understanding of human beings in government is greater than yours because it is more believable.