The system/hierarchy attracts control freaks and financial junkies like a moth to a flame. Don't forget the ego centered, who can't get enough of the limelight, as well.

The promises for change, that have been made to gain the public trust, and therefore entry into public office, as well as the reality that there are billions of dollars in taxation provoking salivation, creates forces that are immediately applied to the new office holder, which compel behavior that is in alignment with existing constraints. This forces the enunciation of lies, or the breaking of promises. If the applicant isn't already a shyster or conman, the threats and actions that come to bear will make the applicant into one. Hence the reason the "necessary" evil of government will always leave you disappointed.

You say, if only we can get the right people into the right positions, especially to enforce the existing laws, that would prevent such corruption, all would be well. Like animals at a feeding trough, the individual insecurity each feels, and the narrow perception of reality each has, leads to competition with each, for a better seat for the feast, on the fruits of the population.

Change comes from within the human, not the institution.

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Psychiatrist Who Literally Wrote the Book On Psychiatric Disorders Says “End the … Wild, Unfounded Speculation [On Trump’s Mental Health]" … Trump “Does Not Suffer from the Distress and Impairment Required to Diagnose Mental Disorder”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/02/psychiatrist-literally-wrote-book-psychiatric-disorders-end-wild-unfounded-speculation-trumps-mental-health-trump-not.html

Posted on February 21, 2017 by WashingtonsBlog

Dr. Allen Frances – professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical College – literally wrote the book on mental problems as chair of the DSM-IV Task Force.

DSM stands for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM is the manual that is used as the standard across the profession for diagnosing and treating mental disorders.

The Boston Hearld reports:

“It’s very important to end the wild speculation — the wild, unfounded speculation,” Dr. Allen Frances, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical College, told the Herald.

“We can’t protect the American democracy by attacking Trump on psychological grounds,” Frances said.

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“Most amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled President Trump with the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder,” Frances said in his letter. “I wrote the criteria that define this disorder, and Mr. Trump doesn’t meet them.”

The president “does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder,” Frances wrote in his letter.

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But multiple speculations about Trump’s mental health have been made by both amateurs and seasoned psychiatrists. A letter from mental health professionals published in the Times — part of the motivation behind Frances’ decision to speak up — stated that Trump’s “grave emotional instability” make him an unfit leader.