Why do people put up with politicians that abuse their positions and profit from it?

Question

Take John Prescott: Deputy Prime Minister of UK.
Been exposed of several serious position abuses at his post yet he is still allowed his job and enjoying the perks and high life that his position brings him.

Answer 1

good question - difficult to answer

people are apathetic, i guess, and the politicos stick together in rifling the national till

no one is giving the people the hard facts that would make them mad

it is as though people think that if people are going to steal from them, well, it is no use trying to stop them

why does no one think like this?:

no one works more than twice the hours a week of the average person, so no one should be paid more than twice the average income [including increase of fortune]

[all the arguments for unequal hourly pay are in fact false - as solid as air]

for people to be overpaid, others have to be underpaid

so what is the world average if no one was being overpaid? how much am i being underpaid? how much am i donating to billionaires to make them powerful and tyrannical?

[the world average is US$15 an hour, paying homemakers and tertiary students also - US$75,000 a year per family working average hard - paradise and plenty]

america was founded on the principle that to avoid tyranny you have to avoid concentration of wealth/power/corruption - the first thing they did after signing the decl of independence was to take steps to limit fortunes - what did the people of the land of the free do? - do nothing for 200 years while wealth concentrated and tyranny replaced liberty

britons sing britons never will be slaves, while 1% own most british land, which is the foundation monopoly

1% get 90% of world income - US$70 trillion a year - while doing less than 1% of the work - a giant theft that attracts no interest or discussion or objection - yet the great train robbery of mere millions generates enormous interest

pay ranges from $1 to $1 billion a fortnight's work - generating super extreme violence - escalation of violence, war and weaponry - to the brink of extinction, now, thanks to e=mc2, and is anyone interested? -

and yet people love money, are happy to get it any way it comes - and people are very very happy when a war ends -

inequality, the rich getting richer, and violence, war and crime have been increasing for millenia - has there been any popular fervour in establishing and maintaining equality to prevent extinction and extreme violence, terrorism and babybombing?

99% are underpaid - 90% are paid between a 10th and a 1000th of the average pay - justice would be good for 99% - nonviolence, nonextinction would be good for 100% - still no interest

the net benefits of overpay are very negative - pleasure slightly increased [gold taps], danger greatly increased [ceausescu] - the overpaid would benefit from justice [quot serves tot hostes - uneasy rests the head that wears the crown]

i think the human race is dead

everyone agrees that injustice is the root cause of violence [war and crime] - proof: if a govt took 90% of income off 90% of people and gave it to 1%, everyone would readily agree that that would cause giant violence, and decimate ['centimate'] social order and happiness

yet people write books on peace without mentioning or giving central importance to the super extreme pay injustice

i guess they think it is too big a problem - 'it doesnt exist if i close my eyes' - pleasure principle people, not reality principle people

maybe someone has discovered an apathy beam, that the govts are using - perhaps the apathy beam is tv

why has hippie idealism disappeared? - why is this generation rightwing? - where is the leftwing? - is the zeitgeist being determined by rays from outer space? - are newspapers being controlled so that there is no mention of leftwing activity?

i came across a hard-to-believe statistic that 42% of american graduates never read a book after graduation

everyone will agree that if a govt took 90% off 90% and gave it to 1%, that will diminish happiness 100-fold or 1000-fold

so everyone knows that justice will increase happiness 100-fold or 1000-fold

yet everyone is just out there hustling for any dollar they can get - taking as much out of the pool of social wealth made by work, regardless of how much they added to the pool by their work

the poor are looked down on, regarded as lazy, irresponsible, although doing most of the work, and the rich are admired and followed, although stealing money and peace and happiness and human future - bill gates has been paid an average of US$500,000 for every hour he has worked - why are humans paying this one person so much? - they know that if bill gates buys US$500,000 of goods and services, that he could not make all those goods and services in one hour - they know that others have to make those g & s and not get paid for the work, for bill gates to get them without doing the work

why have 2000 years of being christians not stopped people admiring wealth, which is hellbound, according to christianity? - why are there no books explaining the reasons that wealth [mammon] is the root of all evils?

that superoverpay is superoverpower is tyranny is not hard to understand, surely?

that the work is spread, so money/power should also be spread is not hard to understand, is it?

even these interesting questions will not arouse any interest

something is very weird

Answer 2

The only answer I can come up with is that most people are too basically lazy to learn the facts, study voting records or really think for themselves.

Sadly, living in a democracy allows so many the privilege of being mentally lazy.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Lots of people just don't care as long as they don't feel the immidiate effect while others look for the lesser of two evils and put up with some **** as long as thier priorities are met