As Andrew Breitbart said, politics is downstream from culture. We have corrupt leaders because the people themselves are corrupt and depraved. We were fornicating, aborting, divorcing, and sodomizing way before they became legal and it was the grassroots pressure that forced these laws to change.

In the Roman Republic, to a large degree independent generals, i.e. Caesar, was able to overthrow the Republic because the Senators and public officials themselves had become greedy and degenerate and the historian Suetonius mentions that it was due to the general depravity of the people at the time.

As John Adams said, the Constitution was only meant to govern a moral and religious people. It is incapable of governing over depraved men. A Republic only works if the people are moral because moral people produce moral public officials. But if there are no moral public officials to be found, then the degenerate people will refuse to obey degenerate public officials. The Republic will fall and a strong-man dictator will be required to restore order.

History repeats over and over and over.

They're not idiots. They know exactly what they're doing.

They definitely are not idiots. They are just evil as fuck.

Corruption in public service needs to be a capital offense punishable by death. We need to eliminate the offenders and the temptation permanently. We allow this by looking the other way or by being lenient. Public service needs the “service” emphasized.

They know what they're doing. Corrupt is a better word.

Come to New York you can hire illegal people to work, every morning any gas station is like a meat market....

Truth.

So true!

We are not governed by idiots, we are ruled by evil men. We are idiots for letting it get this bad.

How true. That means that if someone gets slapped with these frivolous fine, in court, you need to address the judge and ask them that very question.