re: #218 jcm

A politicians craft and trade is seduction, seducing voters into voting for him. When your way of life is seduction, it’s far easier for it to slip into personal seduction.

Very true, and this point is not being made enough.

Also the fact that a politician almost by definition has to be someone who feeds on performance and feedback, like anyone else who makes their living on a stage (musicians, actors). They need the audience; being successful at what they do requires responding to and playing to an audience.

Politicans have affairs partly because their stagecraft is seduction, but also because they have an internal need for adulation.