"most politicians..."
^"I'm rapidly deciding that most politicians are pathetic figures, crooks in more cases than not."^
In which case, the last thing we want to do is hand them more power over our lives.
I figured that out when I was in college. Not entirely coincidentally, it was around the time Nixon was president. Did I tell you I voted for McGovern? I still had a lot to learn about the less-obvious ways of being a crook.