Who knew the swamps had swamps of their own. This is more of a deep state kind of corruption.
How can the US government ever operate with any kind of credibility when most the people working in it are corrupt dems? Answer: It can't. There are no un-corrupted dems.
I'm not sure a swamp of this magnitude can be fixed without a complete and total change. Maybe once the government Unions are abolished a sort of quota program can be established through out the gov requiring an equal number of republicans, dems, and certain percentage of Independents. It isn't working the way it is and now we know why; it's mostly dems.
Self-draining swamp??
A flushing swamp. One that rids itself of the alluvial muck which stinketh so.
The issue is systemic.
A huge central government means power and money are available in DC.
Thousands of enterprises (profit, non-profit, foreign government, special interests of different varieties) will do everything they can to get their share of the “goodies”. Every bureaucracy that can collect intelligence on the Congress and White House folks will do so as well.
The “best” at it will collect data on key Congress-critters for blackmail purposes (the “sticks”) and dole out major bribes to family members, offshore accounts, etc. (”carrots”).
This is the swamp.
There are two kinds of folks in the swamp—those who are in the game and profit from it—and those who are naïve and think they are focusing on “policy”.
In a Kleptocracy there is no “policy”—there is just theft.