It's a dangerous time to be a politician « Alan Chartock's Blog

I have always said that if you hooked any of these people up to a lie detector and asked them, “Are you a good, honest, ethical person who is doing the people's work,” they would answer, “Yes, I am good and I am doing the people's work. ... But the truth is that the whole process has become a self-serving mess. The voters know it and these are very dangerous times for politicians. Everywhere I go, people tell me that it is time to throw them out and start over. ...