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Misbehavior of people in the justice system should be viewed as one of the worst crimes. These people have enormous power over people’s lives and should therefore be held to the highest standards. There are so many cases of detectives falsifying evidence or bribing witnesses, prosecutors hiding evidence and often they get away with this for decades without any consequences.

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The major of my city is a proven liar. She was elected nonetheless. The president of my country seems to be somehow more or less losely involved in fraud at enourmous scales. He was elected nonetheless. I feel like people stopped caring long ago. And by now we seem to have only the choice between different liars and fraudsters at the voting bill. Maybe this was always like this. But I often wonder: How did we get such beautiful democratic systems (in some european countries at least, and yes I know it's not perfect) if not by much more competent and ethically intact politicians? I try to understand, but I have a hard time.

>How did we get such beautiful democratic systems

There was never democracy. People have an illusion of democracy. I think it was Noam Chomsky who said that in a democracy consent is manufactured.

Had a feeling I would see Chomsky in the comments, this is a classic example of how intelligence agencies are a tool of the ruling class, history has shown they rarely ever bite the hand that feeds them, unless it's for self preservation.

The voters need to have easy access to more information about their electable officials. How would the average person know that your city official is a proven liar?

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