| Role/Occupation Politician |
| Total Entries 21 |
| Representative Jaspar Crow |
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Some politicians want to make the world a better place. They run for office and when they get elected stay up late trying to help their constituents and build a stronger community. This is not their trope. This politician sees the world through “Jade-Colored Glasses”. He thinks it’s a “Crapsack World”, with “Black-and-Gray Morality”. He’s gotten unqualified family members appointed to high-responsibility positions and his friends’ companies get the juicy government contracts he doesn’t keep to dole out to lovers and lobbyists. A constituent who comes to him for help had better be ready to hand over a juicy “campaign donation” in a “Briefcase Full of Money” (or an offer to “make a problem go away”). Some corrupt politicians just abuse and twist the system for their own ends. Nepotism may or may not be illegal, and steering contracts to your friends may just be the result of a small pool of available contractors, and of course a member of the committee for Big Oil is going to be acquainted with Big Oil leaders. On the other hand, some are fully criminal and allied with The Mafia or some other criminal organization. They use their insider status to steer police investigations away from their crimes and they have an Amoral Attorney to exploit or create loopholes or simply get rid of any legal process directed at them. In the worst-case scenario, a particularly powerful, competent, and ruthless Corrupt Politician will be a fully-fledged “Diabolical Mastermind”. A Corrupt Politician can be as minor as the mayor of a small town who runs everything for his own benefit. Or perhaps the “Evil Chancellor”, who would like nothing better than to usurp his boss. Or he could be “President Evil”, a full-blown supervillain in charge of an entire nation. Taken to the extreme, he’s an “Evil Overlord”… ~ Corrupt Politician – TV Tropes
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