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  The oversight is supposed to be the voting public. That's what it means to live in a democracy, you can't keep passing the buck forever, and since we have no king the final responsibility ends up with the voters.
  The problem is that a near-majority of the people doing oversight think that George Santos is perfectly fine.
context: I can't believe we're here again. So, where's his birth certificate? >
  
  Right? There's really no background checks on people before they take these offices? Low-level government workers have more hoops to jump through. >
  
  I think the last few years have taught us that our government operates with barely any oversight. The rules are there, they just aren't practiced.