Every government is a parliament of whores...

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
- P.J. O'Rourke

Well, I would agree that many problems in government are a result of voters electing bad people. But we use a representative democracy (republic, actually, but for the sake of argument just pretend we are a true democracy) so we do not have direct control over our government, we elect people who say they will represent us then they control the government. If we had a direct democracy, in which we vote on everything, then the whores would always be us but since we don't, the government can be a whore too. If our representatives do a poor job of representing then the government is the whore.