Stipulate that, unless we start selecting lawmakers the way we populate jury pools, no Legislature will even be made up of modest, deferential people.
It just takes a certain amount of, face it, arrogance, to run for any office. Even people who can quite honestly say that they were recruited by a political party, encouraged by friends and neighbors, suggested by a retiring officeholder, has to be able to look other people — and themselves — in the eye and believe they they are able to make sometimes crucial decisions that affect the lives of thousands or millions of other people.