Accountability requires power. We have stripped politicians of most of their power, leaving them fiddling with margins and fighting over petty things. "Politics

Accountability requires power. We have stripped politicians of most of their power, leaving them fiddling with margins and fighting over petty things. "Politics is Hollywood for ugly people" they say, with a chuckle, but it's far more true than we accept. Unless and until the executive and the legislature can seriously threaten the financiers, journalists, academics, lobbyists, judges, bureaucrats, etc. again, like FDR could, you can't expect accountability. The politicians are just the faces that implement other people's decisions, and those other people don't even have elections to lose.