khagler Wrote:Not if you're a bad person, as politicians necessarily are. Then you get decisions like "Create 3 trillion dollars out of thin air to bail out politically connected companies? The inevitable bad consequences won't even be noticed until I'm safely out of office, so sure!" Or, "Murdering tens of thousands of foreigners will boost my standing in the polls among most Americans? Kill! Kill! Kill!"Those aren't reality-based decisions. They both fail to account for the long term consequences (and yes, there could be personal consequences) of their actions.
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