Doesn't matter what party you elect or what system your government is. There will always be greedy evil men that will trade favors to corporations in exchange for campaign money to get elected into high positions. There will always be manipulation of the system for personal gain. There will always be greed and corruption.

People with true good values and ethics don't get into that business, and if they do, the rest of the sharks sniff them out and make sure they don't get anywhere. Bad for business.

Absolutely right. And that is precisely why The US Constitution originally gave very few powers to the Federal Government. Our founders recognized the fact that power corrupts, because they had been on the receiving end of that corruption.

Over the next couple centuries, as people forgot the reality that tyranny always follows when government is powerful, politicians conned the people of this country into giving them ever increasing power. Now we're having to relearn the lessons our founders tried to shield us from. I hope we learn soon enough that we don't have to go to the same lengths they did to throw off the yoke of tyranny.... but I doubt we will. I fear our descendants will have to pay dearly for our failure to jealously guard our liberty.