> And when we look at amateur politicians (smaller elections, smaller electoral pools, first time candidates) then we see this happen.. more. Much, much more.

> And when we look at amateur politicians (smaller elections, smaller electoral pools, first time candidates) then we see this happen.. more. Much, much more. It's a known fact that smaller governments are more corrupt, but that's due to low levels of infrastructure for oversight, not because of some equivalence in corruptability of the career political players vs small/amateur players. [1] Small outsider players with similar oversight as federal politics would surely be less corruptible in the ways we normally track [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_local_government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_local_government