Politics is war without the DEAD bodies, ruined, crippled egos are the price.
What I fail to understand is the local electorate voting in the Incumbents. These are your generals and they are fighting to keep their electorate ignorant and malleable. Oh well, life goes on and the 80% still get to vote.
The political class depends on an uninformed, disinterested electorate who can't challenge their assertions. They do the bidding of their corporate paymasters. Our Founders never envisioned a well-paid professional political class that makes a career out of government.