Lots of folks in the third world and in the US are very principled. They just aren’t holding the levers of power in government. The evidence of widespread corr

Lots of folks in the third world and in the US are very principled. They just aren’t holding the levers of power in government. The evidence of widespread corruption in the US government is everywhere if you open your eyes: legislators become vastly more wealthy after getting elected via insider trading, regulators invest in the very companies they oversee, prosecutors selectively prosecute crimes, sweetheart book deals and speaking gigs, positions on boards of think tanks and companies after their “public service” has ended, I could go on. It’s not about transparency, it’s about integrity. All the things I mentioned above are open secrets. The US is a third world country with cell phones.