I’ve said a before. DC is a different world. It based on backroom deals, “you scratch my back...”, ie. people as capital. West may have ended up a box and had to cut a deal. This the the reality of DC, and us holding to a set ideals will do nothing to change that. We don’t have to compromise all of our ideals, but we need to pick our battles and save our resources for bigger more important battles.
A billion dollars worth of fraud is a big deal to me.
It has to change, then. I cannot just accept that "yeah, the government is a pit of scumsucking vipers enriching themselves and their buddies at the taxpayers' expense, a sort of tax funded mafioso, without the far out accents and Italian looks or twisted code of honor". Nope. We need a do-over, not knowing shrugs and "well, that's how they do it in DC - lay back and relax 'cause it's inevitable".
DC has already compromised every single one of my principles a gazillion times. Compromising is the reason we're in a screaming nosedive into the abyss.