TheYoungTurks

If Paul Ryan had lied like that at a minimum wage job interview he wouldn't have gotten the job, but the office of vice president doesn't require the moral fiber of a security guard or a cashier. On the contrary, moral fiber is a liability. If one wants to get ahead and win in the game of American politics it's important to lie with a straight face without batting an eye and without any pesky moral convictions.

And when lying politicians get into office they usually become wealthy by pandering to the rich and powerful. They busy themselves passing bills written by corporate lawyers for the benefit of corporations. They start wars that profit the banks and military industrial complex. The American people are exploited, enslaved, and killed for profit while their jobs are outsourced and their country is sold out.

We are witnessing the failure of American democracy. The freedoms and values that Americans entrusted to their leaders are being steadily whittled away through increasing corporate power over an increasingly incompetent and ineffectual government. The politicians serve only the banks, military industrial complex, and the corporations. America is falling into the depths of economic collapse, currency collapse, war, and police state. America could become a third world country and a shadow of the great beacon of prosperity, opportunity, and freedom that it was.