Study: ordinary Americans have virtually no impact whatsoever on the making of national policy.

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10. It's a lot worse than anyone imagines.

The local and state government, in its race to partnership with local leaders, has cut us out so completely that fraud cover-ups are tolerated. The inside circle convinces itself that they can do anything they want, "for the good of the community." There is a segregation of power that is so complete that the requests for campaign donations is insulting. The FBI and the State Attorney's office will do nothing to step in and help put an end to this trending system.

But the more this alienation continues, the more people lose respect for the process. "Public trust" is such an overused term. We are way beyond that point.