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I can't fathom what would drive criminals to seek public office and the scrutiny that comes with it

• matthewdgreen 4y ago
  The existence of political parties that don’t police themselves.
• wpietri 4y ago
  One can think of narcissists as people who create and perform a false self that is more impressive, more compelling than their real one. But it's not like an actor who can turn a role on and off. They live the lie. I'm sure Santos doesn't think of himself as a criminal. He spins from circumstance to circumstance, trying out things to say and ways to say them until he finds something that works, at least for a while. So I think Santos just gradually lied himself into it. A hill-climbing social algorithm. To me the unfathomable part is not that somebody would try, it's that he would make it to be a major party's candidate for one of the most important elected positions in country. Politics has to be attractive to grifters and frauds of all sorts. I have to wonder how he made it that far without anybody noticing.
  • dflock 4y ago
    The modern US republican party is tailor made by grifters, for grifters.