If you pay any attention to United States politics, you should have notice one thing in common between the two parties by now.  Even though both parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, are at opposite ends of the spectrum one thing joins them both together at the hip: Corruption.

With political parties as power hungry as they are, corruption runs right along side of them.  Why the need to be corrupt?  After thinking about this for some time now, I was able to draw a few conclusions on the issue.

One conclusion I've drawn is quite simple.  Basically, with power comes corruption.  What is the one thing you want when you get power?  More power.  It is that simple.  All these politicians want more of it.  Now at first, most of them follow the lines I believe.  It's not until the power starts to go to their heads before this totatly consumes them, and they begin to be corrupt.

Another conclusion I've drawn is corruption isn't limited to just one party.  If you've ever listened to any sort of political talk radio show, the particular talking head will do its best to make you the listener believe that his party can do no wrong and the other party is worse than satan himself.  Of course, this just isn't the case in America.  Both parties have their corrupt members, and it is our duty as voters to get the corrupt representative out of office.

In a brief conclusion, not all politicians are corrupt.  Some actually do their jobs of serves us the constitutents and do it good.  Just try to keep an eye out for the bad ones.  Corruption hurts us all in the long run.