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I feel like this can equally be applied to the United States as a whole. For far too long We The People have allowed our REPRESENTATIVES to act like they are RULERS. They need to be reminded that the power they wield is given to them directly by our consent and can be revoked.

— 🇺🇲The Pissed Off P8triot!🇺🇲 (@Am3ricanP8riot) January 4, 2026

New Jersey doesn’t just have a corruption problem it has a complacency problem.

For over 20 years, the chair of the New Jersey Republican Party hasn’t truly been elected by the committee members voters chose (as is mandated by the bylaws). Instead, the role has effectively been hand-picked by the Republican gubernatorial primary winner, while the committee rubber-stamps the outcome.

That’s not how the rules are written, it’s how power is allowed to operate.

This is what corruption looks like in New Jersey: not always criminal, but normalized. Rules exist, but no one enforces them. Process becomes theater. Authority becomes an illusion we collectively agree to believe in.

And we’re guilty too because we give politicians far too much power by treating them like they actually have it.

If you met many of these people in real life, you’d realize something uncomfortable: they’re not brilliant, they’re not exceptional …they’re often clueless. What they’re good at is protecting their position. They cling to power because they know the public is finally waking up and no longer willing to hand it to them unquestioned.

Corruption survives in New Jersey not because it’s unbeatable but because for too long, people allowed it.

That’s starting to change.