 As Gray Slick says, and the joy within you dies. When everything turns out to be lies, the joy and all the joy within you dies. Don't you want somebody to love? Remember that song? Yeah. And strangely enough, in the face of outright corruption and incompetency on the part of our elected officials, Americans in general remain relatively gullible. They're eager to be persuaded that the government is headed up by their particular brand of political savior and that they can solve these problems for you.