So, apparently just as soon as Obama got out of Illinois politics, it turned directly back into a cesspit of ridiculous corruption. That's right folks, Rob Blagojevich the Governor of Illinois has been arrested for trying to sell Barak Obama's Senate seat.
I... I almost don't know what to say. How do you respond when a high ranking politician spits directly into the face of the Democratic ideals that he's supposed to be defending? It's kind of hilarious. The FBI nabbed him now to prevent him from putting all these horribly corrupt policies into action. Blagojevich, for instance, wanted to redirect money from the casinos to the horse racing industry(I know, I know, corruption in the casino and horse race industries, HOW COULD IT HAPPEN?). That bill cost some deeply, deeply honest horse racing enthusiast $100,000.
This is why I don't trust people who run for office. No matter how good their intentions are going in, once people get some power, they seem to realize that have great opportunities to improve their own lives and those of their families at the cost of the public. For most people, after a number of years, the temptation to take advantage of their position. I guess it's just human nature, but friends, I hate it.
Power, it seems, is a very dangerous thing. If people don't have it, those who do tend to come in and do them weak some evil. If people have power, they tend to go do evil to those without it. How do people get enough power to prevent themselves from being oppressed without becoming oppressors themselves? How do we prevent oppression without creating opportunities for oppression?
Is this the place for the suffering servant? The individual who has access to power, but choses to live as one of the oppressed? How does that work? How can someone freely choose to be a suffering servant?
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