One political view treats concentrated power and low motives as fixed givens.

Evidence

A third understanding of politics which regards trust as politically unproblematic does so from a dramatically contrasting point of view. It insists that we have no option but to take the concentration of power in human societies as given, and that we must take the less edifying motives and the less impressive levels of cognitive insight of most human beings as equally given (that is what human society and human beings are like: that is the existential reality of human society). Classical natural law or natural right theories it sees as confused, sentimental, and in bad faith. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1126