After almost a decade of political enmeshment, I thought that politics had lost the ability to make me wince, that it had no more heartbreaking tricks to play on people.
I hadn't been around for long enough to witness the enforced corruption of young politicians by people who think nothing of using them as tokens to advance their own careers.
It's one thing to join forces with younger colleagues who have no integrity to begin with; that's already bad. It is something else to make younger colleagues who strive for integrity and who are naive about ambition subordinate values that are inseparable from why they were elected.
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I don't have millions of dollars to protect my image, the way that celebrities do, and it shows. Here are quotes from Carey Martell, one... -
Although my life is really awful, I am not in the dire situation described at the previous page. Unfortunately, I'll be 46 this summer...