"...Raise the upright, put them over the crooked, and you should be able to caused the crooked to become upright..." -Analects 12:22
As what our popular belief says: "The good always prevails over the bad". When the first one is given the authority over the latter, the first one will somehow change the latter. But if you have the latter (the bad) as the authority over the first (good), it is not sure that you will have the first change into that of the latter.
Now, why say so? It is because when the authority is really good, or let's say upright, such can diminish the presence of the bad in the crooked community. If it can't, then it is not really good; maybe it just presumes that it is good but it is not for real good. And when the authority of such community is not really good, it is impossible, or to safely say, hard for the community to somehow become upright.
Nevertheless, good people, that is put into authority over the corrupted, which could have outnumbered the first one, can still be able to persist and somehow change the devious majority for they are indeed good. And as we know it, "goodness" prevails.
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