Agreed that scum and crap always seems to rise to the top.
Just from my small-town : 3 guys that were dealin' dope on the street-corner, are now business-owners, and esteemed members of the local
Chamber-of-Commerce™.
Enterprising™ Entrepreneurs™ ?
The Premier™ of Ontario™ was a well known dealer in his twenties.
Clintons™ ?
My opinion is that 'good' people never even get close to the top of any kind of hierarchy.
Too many sociopaths and psychopaths to contend with.
Trying to find even one honest Politician™ is an exhausting task.
Can only think of Manny Pacquiao, if you overlook the fact that he got his riches and popularity from beating-up innocent folks.
It seems like he's still running for President™, even though his team told him not to, because he would be eaten alive by the ruthless arseholes
that Politics™ attracts.
In an interview by G. Edward Griffin, with Senator Norman Dodd : he discusses what happened to his aide, a normal uncorrupt person, when she gazed
into the abyss of all of the evil and horrors that the supposedly Philanthropic™ Charity™ organization called The Carnegie-Foundation™ was
up-to, when she read through the minutes of their board meetings.
She was never the same afterwards. It basically broke her.
The context was the Reece-Committee™ investigation into Tax-Exempt™ Foundations™.
The report was never released...
These are the type of things that a supposed White-Hat would have to be able to digest, and overcome.