Enigmatic personalities, charisma-less corn flakes, and every type in between flock to represent us, but only a select few succeed. What motivates someone to pursue this line of work? Between the sex scandals, embezzlement, allegations of drug and alcohol abuse, election rigging, and authoritarian tendencies, there is no shortage of jaw-dropping material. It’s time we took a sobering look at these characters and the environments that produce them.