It's literally not their job, because elected officials made it not their job. If you don't like that, it's our job to vote them out. But that can't happen.

It's literally not their job, because elected officials made it not their job. If you don't like that, it's our job to vote them out. But that can't happen. Because people are more likely to vote for a knowingly corrupt politician as long as they're in the right party, over another politician in the wrong party. Probably - in part - because of conditioning by our politicians, scaring us that the other "side" is going to do something real bad if they ever "win". Nevermind the other "side" "wins" every 8 years or so. I don't say this disparagingly. I think I suffer from it to some extent too. I just don't know what to do about it and it makes me sad.