[Ridin' Shotgun]

Can a poisoned heart nourish a body?

I would submit that we are rotten from the top, down. Our leaders are corrupted before their names are selected by the 'elect' to become our choices of: from bad to worse.

[Bush2000]

I would submit that we are rotten from the top, down.

Nah. As Mark Twain (one of my favorite writers) would have pointed out, we are uniformly rotten. People are weak and subject to all kinds of depravity. No one is immune. Particularly the little guy.