Sleazy Politician: Difference between revisions

* Littlefinger from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' certainly qualifies; the brothels he owns are nothing compared to the fact that he's {{spoiler|made frequent sexual advances on his barely teenage [[Creepy Uncle|niece-by-marriage]] and [[Parental Incest|semi-adoptive daughter]]}}.

* High Ridge and company are the spitting image of sleazy politicians in [[Honor Harrington]]. Not only are they, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|sleazy]] they are stupid and they dump Manticore in a new war so clumsily without trying. Their incompetence is so great that it is proof of course that they had no intention of doing so. If they had actually wanted to renew hostilities, [[Sarcasm Mode|Manticore would have remained at peace.]] But their combination of selfishness and stupidity nearly brought their country to ruin.

* In the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'', the more brutal dealings of more, well, ''interesting'' times have devolved into more or less normal dealings of politicians. For instance in ''Miles in Love'' a [[Succession Crisis]] that might once have been solved with an assassination or a little civil war is cheated at with an attempted mugging. As the bad guys desire to render the candidate unfit to have heirs (by the obvious method) it is bad enough. But they are not trying to ''murder'' him, at least.

 

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