Elected officials in the US are basically all corrupt because they take bribes ("campaign support") from the rich and do their bidding. (Princeton study.) Popul

Elected officials in the US are basically all corrupt because they take bribes ("campaign support") from the rich and do their bidding. (Princeton study.) Popularity, advertising, and manufactured sentiment are bought with this dirty money. The only way to fix this is separating church and state and money and journalism. A better way than a popularity contest is to do as the ancient Greeks by selecting public administrators at random from a trustworthy, competent group of people who serve for a limited term, like jury duty.