>> Fully discrediting both *might* have the long-term benefit of re-establishing some kind of bar for experience and integrity (even a minimal bar)
The best politician is the person who wants it least. ;-) Should be a civic duty you grit your teeth and do for a term before vanishing never to return. Sort of like compulsory military service in Switzerland- not what you'd choose, but you have to so you might as well be the best soldier you can be until you can go back to your real life.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
