Political Power

     My opinion on political power is that political power does not necessarily corrupt the people who attain it. I think that corruption is only a possible outcome and that whether or not the individual with political power becomes corrupted or not depends on who the individual is and what the individual chooses to do with the attained power.
     For example, individuals who had abused their political power in history includes: Hitler from Germany, Franco from Spain, Mussolini from Italy, Stalin from Russia, and Mao from China. Although they may not have started out thinking that they wanted to be or would become corrupted individuals after attaining political power, they eventually became tyrants who abused that power. Therefore, I think that the corruption of individuals from attaining political power depends on who the individual is because some individuals become corrupted when they gets addicted to that power and are unwilling to release their grasp on it while some other individuals may only use their political power when it is for the good of others.
     As for George Orwell, I do not know how he would answer this question because I am not him, but I think he would agree that political power corrupts the people who attain it. In his book, Animal Farm, the animals describe some of the occurrences in their life:

The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals...At last they could stand it no longer. One of the cows broke in the door of the store-shed with her horn and all the animals began to help themselves from the bins...The next moment he and his four men were in the store-shed with whips in their hands, lashing out in all directions. (38)

     I think this quote shows an act of tyranny because it shows that Mr. Jones and him men believe that they can use unjust violence on the animals when they were the ones at fault for not feeding them in the first place. I think this shows corruption in people who attained power because Mr. Jones and his men believe that they have power over the animals, resulting in their belief that they can abuse that power.