text: Sounds like you just answered your own question. Our country is full of the biggest crooks in the world, and the best hidden ones. It's being allowed because there is no one to stop it. People believe that they are bound by the vote. You know, that arcaic ritual that makes them feel patriotic (well, less than 50% of them anyways) every few years? The question is, what are you and I gonna do to stop it?