If there is one failing of our liberal democracies, it is that our political systems have encouraged career politicians who have never run a farm or a shop or a school or a ship, and who lurch from utopianism, which gets most of them into politics in the first place, to pragmatic power-seeking, which is what they turn to when Utopia fails to arrive on schedule. When Christian men and women have confidence in their convictions, have experience of life’s struggles, see public office as a means, not an end, seek the common good rather than limited privilege, act transparently and respect the rule
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