Part of the problem with a professional political class is the separation of meaning of one's actions from the context in which they are efficacious. So there is a fragmentation in one's consciousness which obscures the true impact of one's actions.
On the separated political level, the subjective experience of corruption is that of one simply chasing one's own self-interest, an activity that is mimicked from the rest of the dominant social sphere, particularly that of business, where the behavior is universal.
This reality becomes separated from the underlying reality that it affects. That one's decisions are impoverishing and killing an extraordinary amount of people is not a direct experience in one's subjectivity. It becomes easier to compartmentalize these facts and rationalize all manner of alternate explanations over them.
And those gazing up at the political class, from underneath the firestorm caused by their actions, gaze up with a growing hatred and fury.
This is not to excuse anyone in the political class. But looking on at the totality of this activity, one is forced to ask oneself: how can this happen?
