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Bizarrely, most statists even: 1) acknowledge that politicians are WORSE than the general public, and yet; 2) expect those BAD people having power and control over everyone else to make things BETTER.

Much checks. So balances wow.

Yeah, just like the IRS is almost universally-hated by Americans, yet Americans almost universally believe we can't survive w/o the income-tax & IRS...truly insane...