Agreed. But too many people are paying too little attention and the pols have learned how to manipulate that. The garbage I've seen in our local elections that gets these jokers elected is incredible.
Money is the blood of politics. Unfortunately, we have ceded too much control over our own money to be able to corral those hosses now.
Guess I'll have to study Ayn Rand again. How do you get out of the system?
Even Bill Gates had to kowtow to the civil "servants."