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Political Factoid
Characteristics shared by bad politicians:
- Self interest and ideology over country
- Self interest and ideology over constituents
- Self interest and ideology over party
- Self interest and ideology over fellow Americans
- Lies and conspiracy theories over facts, science and truth
- Crime and corruption over justice and fair play
- Discrimination and inequality over equality
- Solicitation and acceptance of dark money
- Solicitation and acceptance of foreign money
- Reverse insider trading*
- More interested in money and control than public service
- Smear tactics over positive proposals
- Voter restrictions over voter rights
- Control rather than governance
- Market-base capitalism and cronyism rather than free enterprise
- Bigotry, misogyyn, bullyism, xenophobia, scaremongering, racism
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Make trades and then enable legislation financially
favoring those trades
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