I take great issue with this. Not in the sense that I think people enter the Senate for selfish reasons. In fact, I think ALL people enter politics for selfish reasons. Obviously, one must consider which selfish reasons are moral ones, and which ones are not.
Some men enter politics to use the power to their advantage, cause turmoil, use coercive power, and pillage the rights of the citizens to their dishonest gain.
Men like Schiff, however, are the most selfish, and the most moral, of all those that entertain a political career, because they intend to make the changes that ensure individual rights. And when they ensure individual rights, they do so to further their own interests. However, when they further their own interests in this respect, they in turn give this higher moral political system to everyone else.
The founding fathers fought for their own freedoms - an act of total selfishness. It's merely natural and unavoidable that if they were able to fight to allow themselves their own individual rights, then it would in turn allow all others, who allow that government to exist, their individual rights as well. That's the most selfish act one can engage in - and we must remember, that selfishness is in fact the greatest virtue men can possess.
So why call it corruption? It would be blatant package-dealing to confess such an improper and illogical belief.
