"A representative [Congressman] must regularly raise $50,000 to stay in office. Regularly means every day, and so a politician is a shill. He has no skill other than persuasion and has never practiced it other than in fibbing go his constituents and flattering his paymasters.
The shill at the three-card monte game is hired to pretend to win and then to 'side' with the yokels and show them how to do the same. The politician presents himself as the friend of the voter, but, elected, can only vote at the direction of his owners. He is their employee and absent their favor, has no other means of support." The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment by David Mamet.
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