“The reason we have corrupt leaders is that much of our society is corrupt. From the Mayor down to the garbageman.”
I must differ. If the American voters had kept government within the carefully crafted bounds of the Constitution, taxes would be low and there would be little money for government to waste.
OK. But your rebuttal states the very thing I commented on.
If the American voters had kept government within the carefully crafted bounds of the Constitution,
It was the 'corrupt' AMERICAN voters who did not keep the government within the carefully crafted bounds, because doing so would not have allowed them to become criminally rich and powerful.