I was recently talking with one of my close friends who has been a state senator for about a decade now. They said that, whereas when they got into politics se

I was recently talking with one of my close friends who has been a state senator for about a decade now. They said that, whereas when they got into politics seriously in the 2000s there was an expectation that you were elected to serve your constituents and if “something happened to fall off the table into your pocket” it was kind of overlooked. Compare this to now, where if you do not come into an election with corporate sponsorship, with increasingly specific grift-based policy goals, the corporate money lobby will just over power you to stay off the ballot or crush you with propaganda Kari Lake a Republican talked about how she was approached recently to basically no response anywhere.