I'm convinced that governmental positions of power only attract psychopaths and people of low moral character (with very few exceptions, Trump being one). I'm about at the point of thinking we should just bribe these people to act in the best interest of Americans ourselves. The sheer amount of corruption in politics is staggering, it seems like it would be more cost effective to just payoff leaders via the taxpayer.
Like "here's millions of dollars! don't screw us over!". Ideally, leaders should not even be "bribable", but I'm convinced that's not even possible. So why not just pay them off via taxpayers? I'm sure it would be cheaper!
Of course that leaves out blackmail and threats in order to control these people, I'm sure that would remain effective. It just seems that anyone who is sane and good, would just never get into politics. We're being ruled by narcissists and psychopaths.
I don't actually think this is a solution :( , but man am I fed up. How do you attract ethical and principled people into politics? Absolutely anyone that I think would be a good leader, would not want to be anywhere near politics, would not even want to have that kind of power. I guess I'm just ranting here, but hope and pray that the plan is real, and we can eliminate sociopaths from any form of leadership.
1800s UK actually had very low levels of corruption. The key was that the public officials had very little power, so it wasn't worth bribing them.
If the USA would stick to the actual constitution, Congress would only exercise their enumerated powers in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. Anything outside of that should be made null and void.