Exactly. The loudest abusers tend not to be the ones in political office. They are the class rep demanding “contributions” nobody agreed to, the community leader doling out jobs to their cousins, the department head playing favorites. Power intoxicates at all levels. The difference is that when a class rep abuses power, you can vote him/her out. When a politician does it, you wait for four years. That’s why accountability starts at the bottom, because if we normalize the small abuses, we’re training ourselves to accept the big ones. This is something we see everyplace, be it our schools or our workplaces. The real question is why we let it happen.