Nothing in politics (or business for that matter) is what it appears to be. There are ALWAYS other "real" reasons for what is happening that you are privy to knowing. It's been a sham for all of eternity and exemplifies the human condition. Power corrupts.
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Pretty sure you mean 'you are [not] privy to knowing.'
Also, I don't believe power corrupts anyone. I believe that corrupt people seek power, and then are corrupt wielding that power. They, all liars to a man, lie and say 'the power corrupted me' when they get caught. But, they were corrupt before they ever got the power.
If you look really hard, you can find examples of people that weren't corrupt when they sought power, and were not corrupt when they got power. The power did not corrupt them, and they were not corrupt with, or without, power.
Corrupt people corrupt power.
There are far too many who give in to the temptations of greed when put in positions of power that the adage still holds true. Politics is just the major leagues where they get to put all the practice in the corporate world to use.
My point is that them availed such temptations seek such opportunities with the fury of 1000 suns, and that is why such corruption is all but ubiquitous in every position in institutional hierarchies.