[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Decades back, I watched a BBC Europe program "Hard Talk" in which a sort-of Leftist BBC chap questioned an old guy who'd been a member of the Clement Attlee government after the war. Socialist. When the interviewer pressed the ex-minister 'happy memories" about the factual 23 percent unemployment at that time, the ex-minister smiled and said, "Yes, but at least we were in charge."

I place that alongside the testimony in Congress by Timothy Geithner, who said of a Republican-backed economic plan of some sort, that the Democrats opposed it. When pressed for his proposal, he said 'we don;t have one, What we're saying is we are opposed to YOUR plan."

These taken together tell one all one needs to understand. The sociopaths who wish to rule accept no real accountability all the while expecting others to.

[drwoof]

Excellent point. And yes, the desire for ‘power’ in politics brings out the very worst in human nature. Worked in it all my life, and seen it all to frequently. Even marginally normal people get too big for their britches, but it is baked in with leftists.