Our government is going the way of the French aristocracy, the Czar’s government, the Chinese Empire, the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, the Roman Empire, and many others. Buried by their own corruption and hubris. Can there still be an honest man in Washington? I think not.
There’s always that period of real corruption as the empire declines, when apparently people are so drunk on power that they don’t realize anything beyond their own cologne. The Ottomans’ Tulip period comes to mind, as does the 1001 Nights of Harun Al-Rashid’s Abbasids. Byzantine.
Byzantine.