Built on a house of bribes. Got to follow through to keep your integrity, grifters move on to another town. These are high class criminals in Washington DC, legitimized by titles and words. Meeting in lobbies, meeting with lobbies, depositing lobbies. Rats eventually point fingers at other rats, and the other rats point back.
And it continues like this, two rats pointing at each other, for years, for terms, for decades. These must be important rats, able to avoid the rat traps, able to sniff out the rat poison, able to keep their rat claws off the rat glueboard, able to thrive and grow old and grey. Like cockroaches, they scatter in light. They die in light.
Take the 75 mile trip up to space, past the skin of our atmosphere. Suspend your insecurity and envy for a moment. Float with the gravity of rationality, see the world in its delicate condition. As it is. We're all just spinning, even the rats.