Politics

Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests, which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

-Teddy Roosevelt, 1912

Any time people try to organize into a cohesive force there will always be a corrupting force within the ranks. More or less I think the United States has now bred itself a nice corrupt political power in DC, where most of us can't tell what the hell is going on anymore.