Odd how Americans are okay with so much political corruption.

@Ontheroad The notion of representative democracy is embodied in Congress, and Congress is allowing the corruption. I understand parties, etc., but when you break it down, the US is endorsing the corruption by Congress’ silence. And the Cabinet? All broke their oaths to the Constitution.

@Bumbles You have to separate the "US" from the people. In other words, the government from the people. Which on the surface makes no sense.

But when you look deeper, lock at the structure originally laid out in the Constitution, plus the differences that have arisen in the last 250 years, it becomes clear that there was no endorsement by the people, not at any time... they were endorsing what they thought they were getting/had... huge mistake.

This is the short version, but hopefully you'll understand why I say you must separate the "US" (the government, from the people of the country.

You have to back in time and understand the the dynamics/conditions and assumptions of those who proposed, wrote, debated and horse traded over portions of it, and then ratified the Constitution.

Those who influenced the ideas that came to be in the Constitution. There were no political parties, not as such. A man's word and reputation was his ticket. He was not a paid member of the government, and in that time integrity was important and to a large extent, integrity made or broke a person.

All this and more brought pen to paper to produce out Constitution, a constitution almost bereft of guardrails and what guardrails there were carried no weight... other than the ethical weight and the integrity to abide by the intent.

Remember, this was a fledgling country, a somewhat lose coalition of few different colonies spread out over what was then a comparatively (to today) small area.

The result was that men who could not envision, had no way of envisioning the strength of the what we see today in the two party system wrote the Constitution.

As I said, the guardrails were not written in... integrity, they believed, would prevail and the government of the people would rule with integrity, and ethically.

In fact, the founding fathers so believed in this that they wrote a Constitution that needed no real enforcement and what enforcement, checks and balances were written in, had few and basically toothless consequences for those who acted without integrity and unethically. To make what has developed over time even more difficult to correct, but in the mind a protection for the Constitution, the made it as near impossible to amend the Constitution as they could, plus devised a slow moving justice system (believing slow moving = a more just legal system).

In reality, our representative form of government was (written) deeply flawed in that it did not see, could not even envision a time when ethics and integrity would not rule the day. Worse, correcting what was to come was nearly impossible.

Then came the time when what you said is spot-on. "Congress is allowing the corruption" and "And the Cabinet? All broke their oaths to the Constitution>. True almost to a person.

It began slowly, but today the parties have near absolute control. Nothing the people wants gets unless it benefits the party, nobody gets to run in a primary election they don't choose and more, much more. Virtually every member of Congress has been bought and paid for. And the members of the different houses owe their positions to their party.

This happened right under the nose of the people who trusted in those they voted for. They did not (or most didn't) vote for what you see today.

The parties have control.. and there is no easy way to fix that. The people got caught asleep at the wheel and now they no longer steer that wheel. It may be fair to say they were/are naive or just plain stupid, but few want what you see.

@Bumbles i wouldn't use the term hate.

@samueltyler2 Oh how they mock centrist dads!

@Bumbles BTW, who are "they?"