They all go to the same schools, study PoliSci under the same professors, and at the end, the club is similar to the club for lawyers.
Both sides go to court, one side wins, the other side loses (the case) and both lawyers come out of court with more money. Same with politics. The politicians case a little bit about winning, it is their personal livelihood, but once in, they are all on the same team.
Modern political science is uniformly directed at transition from the current political condition to a future one. The better law schools teach that law is an outcome oriented process, where "the law" itself has no meaning, other than being useful tool in argument. Two cases using the same law can have opposite outcomes, and the judges will do the heavy lifting.
That’s why I call the Justice System the LEGAL system.
They are not interested in Justice.
Good post, Cboldt.