

Honestly what do they, as individual career politicians in a now-nakedly-corrupt industry, stand to gain from fixing any of it? Their actions are primariy about advancing their careers because Congress has been broken for years and what else would they do?
The consultant’s credo is, “if you can’t be part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.”
Meaning the politician’s credo is now the reverse “There’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem, you won’t be part of the solution.”
narrator: they did not