Back to the topic of corrupt politicians. Why does the populace put up with it? Because the populace itself has been corrupted. A huge portion of the voting public votes for its particular interest and is quite willing to be led by corrupt politicians. Everybody is on the take. Union members vote in a block for democrats, the indigent vote for the democrats, the minorities vote for the democrats. They all view the government as a treasure trove to be divvied up amongst pirates. They all get part of the spoils. Of course it hasn’t occurred to these voters that their lords and masters walking by with a big pink cake and letting them scuttle around the floor grabbing crumbs isn’t the best of situations, but these folks don’t think too far ahead anyway. Some of them get a hankering for a big pink cake of their own, and go into politics. Or peddle influence some other way. But most are content with the crumbs; and quite willing to punch a fellow in the face to get more crumbs.

With a corrupted populace what else do we expect? Not sure how we get out of this easily. What happens when it rains and melts the pink cake away? Whatever will we all do without our little crumbs? I suppose we’ll all have to learn how to bake our own little cakes.