Many of you are no doubt acquainted with the greatest television show ever produced "The Wire" a mixture of Dickens-like narratives that hits as hard as great investigative journalism. Watching it's full five season run will give you a pretty good idea of what this country faces, why it is broken, and why it probably can't be fixed.
In a episode in the fourth season, there is a unforgettable moment that takes place between one of the main characters, a police detective, and a young low level drug runner. These two have had run-ins the entire series, and their relationship has progressed from loathing and contempt for each other to a real respect and admiration.
Now both of these characters are just cogs in machines that will run with or without them, they are, in fact, just pawns and they realize this. The detective is in a police department that will never focus on the real problems because it is obsessed with stats, and the drug dealer is now forced to follow the whims of a drug lord who has started killing innocents for no reason. Any attempts to change the way things work is without question futile. The young drug dealer remarks, "This game is rigged, man."
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