I've heard the phrase 'you can ignore politics, but politics wont ignore you' before, it seems very appropriate to this post.

Its like anything that goes ignored, things turn bad fast as vermin move in, low level crime and bribery metastasize and becomes high level crime if left unchecked.. and before you know it things like nukes are getting smuggled to terror groups in return for cash to the campaigns of the criminals responsible for the smuggling.