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imagine the US is having a civil war with decentralized militias that want to be mostly left alone in the woods but gain resources through illegal means. You're a politician that can either turn to the other side or face them off and bring 'the troubles' to the whole country for after a few decades for things to be either the same or with the militias in charge, also you will absolutely die for it. Now imagine they are not only innawoods but also in the cities and even infiltrated directly or by means of a payment. Politics by it's nature it's a dirty business and nobody who make it to the spotlight is clean, not here nor in your country either, the good politicias get culled before they can make a dent to the system enriching bureaucrats