WHERE HAVE ALL THE MAYBES GONE?

I am actually old enough to remember when some countries were governed by a consensus of fair-minded people on the left and on the right.
  These people, despite their ideological differences, were able to listen to opposing points of view and incorporate the best ideas from both.
  There was a simple reason for that. The elected officials actually worked for the people who elected them. The people had faith in their ability to work together and find the solutions that were best for everyone.
  Governments that worked this way tended to have both the best social programs to protect the people and a healthy private sector to build the economy. 
  But somewhere along the line that slowly started to change.  Perhaps it was brought on by the high cost 
of campaigning and the corporate sector realizing that they could trade money for influence. And once that idea took hold everything started to go to hell. 
  The willingness to work together turned into blanket opposition to anything the government wanted to do to benefit the people. 
  Soon, governments of maybes became governments of NOs. Because the NOs were all beholden to the people who gave them the big bucks. 
  Sadly one of out most cherished institutions, government, has became all about the money. 
And all the maybes, well, they’ve just disappeared into the deep 
black hole of greed. Politics