Election Reform Ideas: What, How and Why

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@GulliverFoyle

On the downside, as a career it becomes their entire livelihood, and that creates an incentive to benefit themselves at the expense of their constituents, the electorate as a whole, and the international community.

But that incentive exists whether or not the politician in question is a “career politician.” Take our current President-elect, for example. He brings far more disturbing financial conflicts of interest to the job than his predecessor did.