[Chaossaber314]

Quote by: Scribbler1 I'm not implying anything. They DON'T do anything although they can. It's funny that most people can't seem to find two people that they know personally who would say the government does a good job yet the same people keep getting elected/reelected. That clearly illustrates a conscious choice. They don't like how the government runs but choose to keep the same people and parties in power when these same people and parties are the cause of their discontent.

Either you think the system is so corrupt that it's rigged in favor of the winning party or you think it's a choice of evils. That doesn't show a real wide breath of decisions.

I'm not sure what you meant there but I don't believe advocates of either side think their side battles corruption with a different corruption. As our right wing friends here ably demonstrate they believe THEIR side is good and the other side is everything wrong with the country.

And here's my point once again. Just as our "right wing friends" demonstrate they believe THEIR side is good and the other side is everything wrong with this country, our left wing friends do the exact same thing. They do answer corruption with more corruption but do so under the rationalization that they're justified in doing so because the other side is destroying the country. Both sides do it and your focus on our right wing friends demonstrates this further by focusing on one and ignoring the exact same faults of the other in the same context.

But there is a big difference between political partisans and the general population. Half the people don't bother to vote and the other half, as a group, is full of people who readily admit they vote for the "lesser of two evils".

I totally agree with this. Unfortunately, political partisans run both parties in a two party system.

I think that is a bad analogy, as we are ACTIVELY fighting disease and illness but our attitude towards politics and government is little more than throwing up our hands and saying "Well, what are you gonna do?"

I think it's a decent analogy because it shows why fighting an inevitability is pointless. Sure we're fighting desease but as good as we get at it, something new will always come along rendering all of the work prior to that point useless. Hell, if one of the media overblown bi-annual pandemics actually became such, that would make everything, not just in the medical field pointless and for nothing.

Point is, pretending you can actually do anything about corruption, particularly in any system of government that is propagated on lying and covering up (like every system), is just pointless.