Whether they are fools or charlatans, or both, as I suppose them to be, their actions amount to a genuine tragedy, because their leadership, so long as the people tolerate it, portends only devastation. The people, in the main, are afraid, and they are immoral, so they are happy to seize any momentary advantage or enrichment the government will hand them, regardless of the moral breach this coercive transfer of wealth represents. The rulers understand the people's moral weakness and exploit it at every turn. Their own example of thoroughgoing corruption, of course, only coarsens the entire society's moral character―after all, what sort of people tolerates, much less affirmatively supports, such creeps in high places?
Our leaders are corrupt and are corrupting us says Robert Higgs.
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