My Uncle Floyd was also fighting in Italy. He didn't say much about the war. But before he got dementia, his son got him to talk into a tape recorder.

Uncle Floyd told the story of how he was alone in an Italian forest and he encountered a German soldier, also alone. Both had loaded weapons. They looked at each other----and somehow came to an agreement to walk backwards until they couldn't see each other any more.

But back to your article: the American legislators are bought in different and multiple ways. The needs of their donors come before the needs of their constiuents.

I know you don't like my solution to this mess, but I'm not seeing another reasonable alternative.