The system is corrupt and the incentives have evolved into self sustaining corruption.
I don’t think any one person or group of people caused this to happen, rather we have allowed this to happen over decades of not minding the store, so to speak.
Each choice a politician makes is between doing the right thing, or making that one compromise that will make their job easier (doing the right thing is hard!). One choice after another turns into a lifelong career of making self serving and/or lazy decisions that help the politician personally or the corrupt system at large, but they never make the hard choices that would help the country.
Then, instead of throwing their asses out after their first term of breaking all their promises, we listen to their catchy ads and believe all their excuses, and blame all of Congress for their collective failures, except “our guy” cause he’s “one of the good ones.” Why wouldn’t that process lead to a corrupt government?
We, as a nation, are like a parent who tells their kid to do their homework and then doesn't check on them all night. Is it the child’s fault for choosing video games over homework, knowing there would be no accountability, or is it our fault for believing a child will do what they are supposed to do on their own?
IMO it’s our fault for not going up there and busting that ass when we inevitably catch them playing video games.
Our politicians are like spoiled children, and we are the parents that have never disciplined them.
It’s not as simple as a big conspiracy plot.
The system is corrupt and the incentives have evolved into self sustaining corruption.
I don’t think any one person or group of people caused this to happen, rather we have allowed this to happen over decades of not minding the store, so to speak.
Each choice a politician makes is between doing the right thing, or making that one compromise that will make their job easier (doing the right thing is hard!). One choice after another turns into a lifelong career of making self serving and/or lazy decisions that help the politician personally or the corrupt system at large, but they never make the hard choices that would help the country.
Then, instead of throwing their asses out after their first term of breaking all their promises, we listen to their catchy ads and believe all their excuses, and blame all of Congress for their collective failures, except “our guy” cause he’s “one of the good ones.” Why wouldn’t that process lead to a corrupt government?
We, as a nation, are like a parent who tells their kid to do their homework and then doesn't check on them all night. Is it the child’s fault for choosing video games over homework, knowing there would be no accountability, or is it our fault for believing a child will do what they are supposed to do on their own?
IMO it’s our fault for not going up there and busting that ass when we inevitably catch them playing video games.
Our politicians are like spoiled children, and we are the parents that have never disciplined them.