Some years ago in new york city, the police were ticketing people for the most silliest and frivolous reasons (one guy got ticketed for sitting on a milk crate. A woman got ticketed for talking to her neighbor in the hallway of their apartment building. Etc.). It was getting quite common.
Because of this the police were accused of ticket quotas. The police denied it and put out figures which showed that they were giving out less tickets than the years before. The ny daily news came to the defense of the police, citing the numbers the police department put out, stopped their coverage of people getting ticketed for dumb reasons, and declared the matter closed.
Months later it came out that the police department had given out phony numbers regarding the tickets. In fact the real numbers showed that they had indeed given out more tickets that year than any other year. There was no outrage. No scandal. No resignations or firings. No investigation. No nothing. The ny daily news had nothing to say about being lied to by the nyc police department.
These politicians rule over the people especially in liberal towns like Chicago & NYC. Working people have to long hours to pay the high taxes to support unproductive people; so, they do not really have time to follow politics closely. And the rest of the people live on the public dole; so, they do not want to elect anyone who is going to upset the status quo.
Most of the media is in the pocket of the politicians as well and they definitely want to keep the politicians happy. Meanwhile, career politicians and their supporters keep hardworking people like Herman Cain (just to name one example) out of office using slanderous ad campaigns in order to maintain their political position & power. These politicians buy votes by promising more handouts even though they have no money in their budgets creating huge budget deficits; thus, they are taking money from future generations that will have to pay those debts.