Gaining office also is the goal of those that love power.
This is a really big problem in a representative democracy.
We had a good start with Washington, but it has been somewhat downhill from there.
It was the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments that changed us from a republic to a democracy. Those implemented two planks of communism, by pulling power away from state governments and into DC and by centralizing a permanent tax on income.
As Woodrow Wilson said, “socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same”. Therefore, the guarantor of liberty would be limited republican government by contrast; literally, democracy is a centralizing power that puts collective over individual and has proven so everywhere, and we’re seeing the endgame worldwide.