Corrupt governments are inherently inept, or at least appear so. There
   is a decisional overhead in maintaining the illusion of corruption or
   maintaining a certain level of BS that would avoid outraging people
   enough to take action. The complexity in decision making was partially
   what destroyed the Soviet Union, virtually all sectors of society was
   lying to each other to maintain an illusion and the ability of the
   central government to enforce their plans rapidly eroded.

   The US government is extremely corrupt. Take Trump for instance, why
   would the media keep mentioning he is corrupt, and yet Congress does
   nothing about it? Congress is the most powerful branch of government,
   ignoring Congress’s capability to censure or remove their own members,
   a 2/3 vote would allow Congress to take any action for any reason,
   exemplified by the Supreme Court decision in Nixon vs. United States (a
   different Nixon oddly enough). Congress can impeach the entire Supreme
   Court on a whim, impeach the entire Executive Branch even.

   So what does it say? Maybe Trump really is corrupt, he got rich from
   money laundering or so the media says. Where did the profits from
   Operation Fast and Furious go, to the ATF or to the gun runners
   themselves?
   ( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/atf-tobacco-cigarettes.html ) I
   suppose only Congress has oversight over that matter. But the United
   States is rapidly crumbling, and US politics have become a circus. The
   whole thing is a distraction, clearly. Every major city has rising
   unemployment, with homeless people looking more and more able to work,
   even the city I live in is in debate about adding maybe several dozen
   units for housing the homeless (which says a lot about everyone’s
   sanity or the size of the local homeless population).

   So. The US government can’t do anything about Trump? Just a bunch of
   leaks and exaggerated statements condemning Trump with no evidence?
   Even if the evidence had to be secret, Congress can’t be trusted with
   it? Or if Congress can be trusted with it, do they lack the spine to
   maintain a functioning and free society?

   I wonder what happened to the ATF agents involved with violating
   federal law and smuggling cigarettes. Maybe they pulled a John
   Connolly, forged informant reports and accepted bribes. Or they used
   fake informants and forged the paperwork to pay off other officials. It
   certainly seems outrageous, it sounds like the whole ATF could be
   potentially corrupt, or just a few bad apples. But what does it say
   about the “good” people if they don’t notice what is happening around
   them when they are practically in the thick of it?

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