I wasn&#x27;t actually thinking of the EU when I wrote that paragraph specifically. My post was perhaps an unclear mishmash of comments on both the USA and - as a side note - the EU.<p>I agree that the EU does not seem to have a serious problem with top officials ignoring the rules and being unpunished for it (or if it does, I don&#x27;t know about it). However the USA clearly does. James Clapper being just one example. Hillary Clinton being another who is in the news right now.<p>W.R.T. Greece, that is very clearly a couple of systemic problems coming together:<p>1) Banks being too big to fail. Same problem all over the world. Not EU specific.<p>2) EU being willing to continue giving Greece large sums of money far after it became clear that the country was completely broken and shouldn&#x27;t be in the EU at all, because they&#x27;re ideologically incapable of contemplating the EU getting smaller.<p><i>&gt; By a remarkable coincidence, a key foundation of Brexit is the dismissal of the EU&#x27;s requirement to treat workers in a civilised manner as &quot;Brussels red tape&quot;</i><p>I guess you&#x27;re thinking of the working time directive?! Not sure what you mean here. At any rate, it&#x27;s a bit off topic for this thread which is really about US politics, perhaps I shouldn&#x27;t have brought up the EU at all.<p>Trump&#x27;s argument is very simple - &quot;To get to Washington you need a lot of money, most of these guys get it from shadowy lobbyists, but I am already super rich and that makes me unbuyable - and thus a man of integrity who says what he thinks. With me you know exactly what you&#x27;re gonna get&quot;.<p>It is a very simple, straightforward argument and unfortunately it has a core of truth to it.