In this part of the analysis, the comparison of the natural swamp has significant similarities to the current political quagmire where survival depends on the consumer, the prey, and the predator. Because the swamp is an ecosystem and in the case of the political swamp a closed human-made ecosystem, members depending on threats may change roles at any time.
In the political swamp, the consumer is very similar to the bystander commonly found in bully events, and the prey becomes the victim, and the predator becomes the bully. With few checks and balances to guide appropriate behavior, this bully triad becomes a toxic unproductive mess. Voter's do not knowingly place into power experienced bystanders, victims or bullies; therefore elected officials often display these characteristics after being exposed to the closed ecosystem of the political swamp.
Bandura, a famous psychologist, studied the effects of moral disengagement in closed systems such as terrorist sects and dictator regimes and found that when new members are isolation under challenging environments, beliefs, morals, and values become compromised. If this is the case in the current political swamp, the culture is toxic, and a change is needed to improve the workplace environment so that elected leaders are guided by their morals and values and of those they represent.
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