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But are "the sort of people who get voted in" more likely to be 1. Serial rapists or 2. Backstabbers adept at using rumours and lies to undermine political ri

• dsfyu404ed 4y ago
  Quality 2 enables one to get away with all sorts of stuff including but not limited to 1.
• t-3 4y ago
  Is there a dichotomy between 1 and 2? The tendency of assumptions in these regards is that someone willing to act contrary to the norm in one way is willing to also be so in other ways. Neither convicted shoplifters or convicted drug dealers will get hired for positions that require trust, even though only the shoplifter can be shown to be a thief.
• roenxi 4y ago
  They're both springing from the same source - people who want power over others and no consequences go into politics. Why would someone be a serial backstabber if that wasn't motivating them? Serial backstabbing isn't much fun in and of itself. They do it because loyalty doesn't secure them power. Take a man who lusts after power, has power, is used to getting their own way, escaping consequences, trained by experience to be unscrupulous and in an environment where nobody tells the truth so what people say gets ignored. Put them alone in a room alone with a women. There is a very obvious risk. Now I'd hope most men would turn out to be ok, but you don't need to know the people involved to be able to predict that there are serial rapists being created in politics.