Blog #2: What is the pupose of government? Does politics support or impede that purpose?

The purpose of government, in my opinion, is to enforce rules and laws in a fair way to its people. Government should be able to keep its people safe and ensure happiness through freedom. Government should be a good thing and clean of internal crime and corruption. This however is totally unrealistic due to politics. It is unfortunate that the body of government that is put in power to keep our country clean and safe is filled with corruption, scandal, and crime internally. As I learned today in class, almost every politician essentially accepts a bribe when people send their party money in exchange for benefits for that person. Although many of the elected members of the government end up doing some form of good for our country others lie simply to gain power. They take advantage of bad situations and lie their way into office. Politicians have become masters of trickery and often never follow through with what they claim they will. Having said that, many politicians have real ideas and dreams that they would like to carry out. Many politicians do attempt to make good things happen simply for the benefit of the country rather than to get money, help friends, or become famous. Obviously without politics government would basically be non-existent but the potential of government would be so much greater with a "cleaner" group of politicians." Politics in America need a serious moral clean up in order to have the right to govern its people and keep them safe.