One of the {many} problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable.
This quote profoundly highlights a subtle but critical issue within governance and society: the normalization of corruption and the collective complacency towards it. It's not merely the nature of power or the inherent flaw in human character that leads to corrupt governance; rather, it is our societal conditioning to accept, or at least tolerate, such corruption without resistance. This conditioned tolerance creates a dangerous apathy, where citizens, perhaps overwhelmed or disillusioned...
