I'm sympathetic to both sides.
If you just say the government is corrupt and you can't do anything about it, you're dead in the water. It's a nihilistic opinion that never makes your nation a better place. You HAVE to press to hold them to account. I've met perfectly good people who work in the govenment who believe in what they are doing to be "on that wall" and I've met people I wouldn't trust to take my garbage out and tell me they did it. As per usual, private or public, they tend to be those who are looking to improve their position to the top levels. Most people who have become the top of their business or the top levels of government have done that through- compromise that makes them pretty unfit for a morality check, or genuinely sociopathic behavior. There's a reason why one of the top jobs for a sociopath is CEO. It fits everything they want to do in life. But like I said, you HAVE to hold them to account.
On the other hand, Luis' suggestion that they are writing laws. Well, we don't have to go down the COVID conspiracy (which as I wrote before I think we can finally put that to bed as nonsense for the most part), but look at The Patriot Act. Most of those people who signed it, didn't read the bill. They just knew their electorate were afraid, their financial backers were afraid, and if they signed it, they would just be able to move forward. It was a power grab, no different than Naomi Klein had outlined years ago in the Iraq war. Has government been corrupt and lied? Yes. Have they done the right thing too at times? Of course. Anyone who says one side and not the other, is not operating honestly. They have an ideological perspective against facts and more towards proving that their side is better than the libs/cons... pick your binary poison.
J
