Because government is not a singular entity, but made up of lots of individual people. And the overall electoral process of using a silver tongue to convince mi

Because government is not a singular entity, but made up of lots of individual people. And the overall electoral process of using a silver tongue to convince millions of people that you agree with all of them on everything, especially on things they disagree with each other on, and/or that the world will end if the other guy gets elected, ensures you select away from any sort of pesky things like values or ethics. The wildest thing, to me, is just how cheap it is to buy a politician. Senator Menendez [1] made it a bit too overt and ended up getting convicted so there's no speculation involved there. International/country level corruption of a senior Senator, who was also the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including getting him to directly interfere in criminal cases? Less than a million bucks. I guess it's more of a buyer's market, which is pretty 'funny' in and of itself. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Menendez#Allegations_of_corruption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Menendez#Allegations_of_co...