Special interests
It’s the very nature of politics that death, in the political sense, is both self serving and self inflicted.
The path to power requires the candidate to herd sponsors that definitely aren’t in the game for goodwill or fun.
Eventually, serving the needs of one’s sponsors either alienates one from the majority or, worse still, causes the eruption of a noisy alternative.
It’s a path so well trodden that you could call it a roller coaster. A set of tracks fixed in place that each candidate, generation to generation, rides upon, until they don’t.
I suspect that the political candidate’s apparent lack of understanding and caring of their fate stems from the obfuscation of the roller coaster by much “information noise” (media, social etc).
It’s a signal to noise problem, and those human beings that have the intellectual horsepower to process the data certainly aren’t interested in being in the game.
Truth is, there’s many more ways to fuck up political ascendency than there is to achieve it in the first place.
In statistical thermodynamics we would say that they’re fighting entropy. And in this blog I would add that they’re fighting entropy with somewhat limited equipment.
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