Lawlessness, lying, and disregard for ethics, much less morals, characterize the behavior of, it seems, a majority of today’s elected and appointed officials

Endemic Corruption

- Michael Oberndorf, RPA
Saturday, November 5, 2011

In its original sense, the word corruption meant rotting, putrification, as in dead or infected flesh. It’s still an accurate description of the condition of today’s body politic. Not a day goes by anymore without news of a new discovery of fraud, theft, and abuse of power by those entrusted with positions of authority.

Lawlessness, lying, and disregard for ethics, much less morals, characterize the behavior of, it seems, a majority of today’s elected and appointed officials. Honor and national pride are antiquated concepts, sneered at by post-modern promoters of a “living constitution,â€