I agree with Mr. Steyn’s thesis.
Which means that perhaps our choices may be limited to choosing between evil and depraved minions of Satan who wish to make the state everything over all, or corrupted men who at least still have the dream of freedom and of limited government, no matter how flawed they themselves might be.
Men who are not corrupt, whose egos are not so large as to fill a galaxy, don't run for high political office. For one, they disdain the requirement to turn one’s insides out for all to view. For another, many honest men know that they are honest but not beyond temptation, and wisely choose not to go where they will be morally destroyed. Avoiding occasions of sin, and all that sort of thing.
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Apparently not. And plenty of corrupt and egotistical men are available even for low political office, such as mayor of my insignificant suburb. Perhaps it's because the cost - in money, time, and personal harassment - of running for any office is so high. The "reward" simply of doing a job and potentially improving the community for all often isn't sufficient, so there has to be cash-in-hand, massive ego support, or both.
I often work on local campaigns - state rep, county commissioners, town council - and finding an honest candidate is hard. Sometimes the best you can do is figure out who owns them, so you estimate how they'll vote.