"How about this, we kick EVERYONE out of washington DC, walk up to teh average Joe on the street and ask him if he wants to represent his neighbors and fellow statesmen in DC, if he says no, send him because he's the guy you likely want to be there.
Sound like a plan?"
Sounds like the end of Tom Clancy's "DEBT OF HONOR." Didn't the entire government get zapped? Jack Ryan was a freshly signed SECDEF or some such, and had to basically start from scratch.
read "HOPE" by L Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman.
For the caveat, see my post #103.
That done, Yes in retrospect it does.
In my personal experience it has been people who didn't want the responsibility or the power who did best when put in such a position.
(There are exceptions, of course. and as always.)
I'll have to track that book down, haven't heard about it before, or if I did it didn't stick in my noggin.