'Politics is a 'public discipline' easily contaminated by 'human weakness'.

Why is 'politics' so easily contaminated by human weaknesses? The answer is not so complicated. Politics involves 'positions of authority' within the social or, to put it differently, within the established institutions of government. Remember, government becomes essential, because the People need a Top with 'power'. That Top with power is what we call the Government. Government 'needs' and 'has authority' or, 'power' to govern the People at the Bottom; and it gets "institutional power" from the People at the Bottom, otherwise, it would not have power, and hence, could not 'govern'. That makes these 'public offices', very enticing. Nevertheless, the only individuals, who can ascend to 'these heights' are situated at the Bottom of the social, or at the Bottom, of the "Government structure". A Government structure can only exist because the People have created such a governmental structure. A government, 'governs' and has no other reason, for existing. One human being on an Island doesn't need to be 'governed'. However, millions of human beings, do need Government. But, keep in mind that all human beings are 'free and equal'. The term "equality" is an 'equality of existing', or to put it differently, every, Tom, Dick and Harry, and, every, Mary, Martha, and Matilda, is equally human. No human being has 'more or less' life within him or her. That's Equal! Equality has nothing to do with money, gold, or possessions and its ludicrous, to think that those who 'own more' possessions have more Life, than Another; and its equally ludicrous, to think they have 'power'. As we've said, the Top gets power from the Bottom in a Democracy. Hence, many Tom, Dick, and Harrys seek Public Office, because the Office 'confers' power. And truly, the Office confers power, but only while in Office. As human beings and as humans at the Bottom of the government structure, we're all the same, i.e. 'powerless'! The only 'strength' in a 'democratic governmental entity', is the 'strength' of the 'condition of togetherness'. That's 'real strength' within any governmental structure. 'Togetherness' is 'strength', and one can say, that kind of 'strength' can also be called 'power'. Other than that, the Individual is left with his/her own individual 'moral standards', and that has nothing to do with 'power'. No Individual has power. We are all "Equal". That's why the Founding Fathers protected the Right, "peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for redress of grievances". That's, under the proper conditions, a "Right to Revolution"; a 'Right' to tell the Top, "hey, wait a minute, who do you think you are? we live in a Democracy, and we're all Equal. If you can't handle the Job, we'll elect someone else".