With all situations and disturbing information we receive from media, it's really disturbing to live in a society run by people having a questionable ethics code.
What prompts these people to do that? Note that the sinews of war in politics is money. To have a good chance of getting elected, it takes a lot of money and thousands of volunteers. The recipe is simple, if you managed to bring you supporters to vote, the better are your chance to win. To achieve this feat it is necessary to have tons of volunteers and lots of money to spoil these volunteers and a lot of money to attract people who work in agencies and influence their members.
So to win it takes money, something that political parties don't have in most cases. I'm not saying that winning elections is the only reason the ethics code for elected officials is doubtful, but it begins in this way. Once you start playing that kind of game, it's difficult to leave without negative consequences.
Moreover, if you analyze the number of hours worked by those elected versus what they receive as compensation, it is certain that our elected officials will not get rich with these salaries more than average. If we were calculating the hourly rate depending on the hours they devote to their work, it would be among the poor of this society.
So, as a representative of the society, with major decision-making powers, it is easy for most of these people to feel important, which means the fact of being treated as such. This is not the case since our elected officials are criticized every day and that their behavior is scrutinized as if they were bandits. End result, good numbers of these elected officials are tempted to accept to be spoiled by entrepreneurs who effectively apply the proverb "the end justifies the means".
I do not want to go further analysis of this situation, I just wanted to give you some thinking on the situation experienced by our elected and the risk engendered by lack of funding of political parties and to sub pay those elected.
Depending on your point of view it would be interesting to have multiple views of the community, who knows, from these comments, perhaps we could make suggestions to our elected officials. The floor is yours.