Its more than that. The courts have been corrupted. The people who are supposed to oversee Big Pharma get their funding from Big Pharma and have the promise of getting hired into lucrative jobs by Big Pharma if they "play ball" while serving as regulators. That goes for both politicians and bureaucrats.
Its not limited to Big Pharma though. The exact same thing is true of the military and defense contractors. If the intel agencies and Big Tech. Of financial regulators and Big Banks. Its called "regulatory capture". ie Big Business really owns and runs the US federal government in many ways and as Adam Smith told us whenever business leaders and government get together, it is inevitably to screw the public (and the big companies' smaller competitors).
Federal prosecutors and judges and juries in certain select jurisdictions are just openly corrupt. They don't give a damn what the law is. They will automatically twist it to give them the political outcome they want.
Academia has been totally corrupt since at least the early to mid 90s when the 60s radicals had worked their way through the system to the point that they could decide who gets hired and who gets tenure.
The media consolidated to the point that only 5 companies control 90% of it....then they just completely dispenses with any pretense of objectivity or any kind of professional standards 15 years ago. Sure they were biased before, but some people in the media still actually cared about professional ethics. It honestly meant something to them. No more.
The professional class claims to be acting for "compassionate" reasons but they're really incredibly self serving, disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people whom they hold in utter contempt....and they are completely given to their virtue signaling fads (Gaia Worship, Trans everything, abortion up to and after birth, overt racial discrimination, whatever other insanity they can think of). We no longer have adults in charge. We are no longer a serious country.
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You are correct in that it is more than the politicians. Every federal agency, financial institution, courts, the military, the medical field, education, law enforcement, etc has become corrupted. However, if it wasn’t for the corrupt politicians the corruption in the other institutions would not have been allowed to take hold and grow to the point it is today.
The corruption has been growing bit by bit ever since our country was founded. However, it really blossomed under Obama’s Presidency and there was no longer any attempts to keep it hidden. When Eric Holder (Obama’s wing-man) flipped off Congress with no repercussions was when I knew the corruption was so deep that it would take something earth-shattering to return our nation to the correct path.
Our nation was not designed to be governed by immoral men. That fact is more obvious now than at anytime in our past.