sociopaths are devious and cunning, but they are not inventive.
Hitlery, it would seem, blamed other people for what she herself was doing.

I do not feel this corruption is a new phenomena.
The govern-cement is bigger now, so there is more corruption,
however, tinsletown and the swamp have always been cesspits.

They just had a much firmer grasp on what things got leaked out. The media controlled all information flow. Now, the flow is going around the media.

A spot light has been lit and the cockroaches are running for it.