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In a representative form of government, the election of a person to high office is to the purpose of serving the people and the greater public good. Public election is a sacred privilege, an honor and obligation. Except elected representatives are faithful to their trust obligations to the people and their country, there is risk of great harm coming to the people and the nation.

Perhaps the worst form of public infidelity and sin against the people is pretentious and false representation, that is, the use of an elected office for purposes of exploitation and self-gain. This despicable practice of pretense and self-gain has in recent years become almost a high-art form for retiring Senators and Congressmen. There has been put in place a rotating door between the offices of corporations and those of Senators and Congressmen, by which elected members can retire from the business of the people and take employment in the business of corporations — and make even more money than they could as representatives of the people.