CONgress approval rating at all time low...now at 7%

[justoh]

I'm not arguing, but who exactly do we elect? The system is corrupt from the top to the bottom. Put in some new faces and the old guard will have them on the corruption train right out of the gate. The deck is stacked against us. We're down to two choices. The status quo or overthrow. We can't count on the corrupt people to un-corrupt themselves. To put it in a current day context, would you expect Eric Holder to investigate corruption at the DOJ with any meaningful results?

I worked for an enormous corporation for 30 years and early on I realized that the same people that got us in trouble were not the people we could rely on to get us out of trouble. The mindset does not change.

I guess we vote for the person who is likely to do the least harm.

From, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, by Douglas Adams:

[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...] ["I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard." ]
Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television,...
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?" "What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again. "Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."