Our "elected" and appointed rulers farm us for their own benefit.
I used to live on the edge of Detroit in a relatively small Michigan town. For the life of me, I could never understand why there had perpetually been a small fraction of said town which was known as "the bad side". This town had a large, well-equipped police force, a sheriff's office and a state police barrack. If local law enforcement had wanted to clean up "the bad side" they could have done so in a day or less. I mean, they knew where all the "bad" people resided . . . what were they waiting for? And then it occurred to me that the cops needed there to be a "bad side" of town because it justified their existence. I'd read the local paper every morning—for years. Without fail, the same people would appear in the paper every so often—arrested for drugs, shoplifting, writing bad checks, evictions—you name it. And yet . . . the cops and prosecutors never resolved the issues these people had and the local community government never reached out to them and lifted them out of their lives of perpetual crime.