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Comment author: adamzerner 05 September 2014 04:56:26PM *  2 points [-]

Your description of why people go into politics has cleared things up and makes a decent amount of sense to me.

  1. They find it exciting and engaging and "want to be involved".
  2. Once they're involved, they "want to be successful".

I could imagine this sort of thought process. Thanks!

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