Pressure as a politician to have integrity and honesty or else your career will die and name be smeared. I put politicians on a very high level, only way to control them. So on the flip side, why should they be corrupt as as which seems to be what you are defending.
Well that’s not the world we live in. Sorry to say that.
But as they are marching you to the gas chambers, you can take comfort in the fact that you put politicians on a very high level.