When corruption becomes institutionalized and endemic you have to shut down the institutions and start over. That applies to almost all levels of US government Federal, State and local.

Yet many sheeple think the system still “works” even as everything around them is falling apart.

The clown show (government) will continue as long as we keep paying the price of admission(taxes). Yes, I include myself. I know it is a problem, yet I do not see a solution short of violent revolution.