Nations fail when one person or group has unchecked power

Many people and political leaders are stupid and selfish and greedy and arrogant

Let's also throw in ambition and pyschopathy

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”

• James Madison

Louisiana politics has always been dirty: Huey Long was the epitome of politics in that state then and now