Politics, what's stopping you from running for office?

[meridian]

For a bunch of mercenary contractors, I’m surprised that no-one has said “because they don’t pay enough”.

[scooterscot]

there's more utility in life learning about my surroundings and understanding nature than that desire politicians seem to have in controlling others through the abuse of power

[jamesbrown]

MF is obviously on the sex pest list.

Mechanically, he's too fat. He'd like to be a sex pest, but he's had to settle for general pest.

Politician, hmm.

Don't they mainly do that to score some ludicrously overpaid consultancy after a couple of years?

Whereas contractors cut out the crap in the middle.

Win.

[WTFH]

Please don’t slag off users who voluntarily chose to take a time out.

...oh and the key word in the title is “running”