Even if they are not abusers, it is very common that politicians are jerks. It is a very, very difficult job that selects for strange people

April 11, 2026 - 00:24 UTC

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Maybe because everyone’s covering for raging assholes instead of outing them so nobody wants to be one
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And you can also be a jerk and be a good performing elected official, doing good things. There have been a ton of them.
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The only way you can be successful in electoral politics, at the national level, is to have an ego that would be disqualifying in a lot of other situations.
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