The scum also rises

I am heartbroken today. I am reading a book about a former US politician. I am aghast to find out the extent to which crime, sex and money power has had a stranglehold on US politics. I always knew that the Americans take a superior attitude on the world stage. And they are callous to the extreme about foreign lives during wars. However, the level of cynicism in internal US politics is disturbing, to put it mildly. I guess it goes with the territory. Only a group of politicains that are this corrupt can behave like brigands on the world stage.