This is uninformed cynicism masquerading as sophistication.
I deal with public officials right across the state on a damned-near daily basis. There are a lot of them that I don't like personally. There are a lot of them whose positions I find noxious, if not downright un-American.
But I'm also going to tell you that, broadly speaking, they're people who are trying to serve the public as they see the public interest. They're serving their constituents, and often their positions--noxious as they are--reflect their constituency. But they're not crooked. They do these jobs for shockingly little money. They're not violating campaign-finance laws or soliciting kickbacks or taking bribes. They could. But they don't.
There are exceptions, of course. There's John Wiley Price. There's Ken Paxton. Those people are fucking criminals.
But they're the outliers.
And then there's George Santos. He's the outlier that goes far beyond the outliers.
When you say George Santos isn't "any worse than the rest of them," you actually show how little you know about our public officials. And your cynicism may convince some who are just as uninformed as you that you have some inside scoop. But you don't.
What you bring to the table isn't insight or information or knowledge. You just bring a malignant cynicism that has infected our body politic, convincing it that everyone is a crook and that our democracy isn't worth saving. It's the cancer that led to January 6. It's a cancer that continues to grow today. And it's fucking threatening the life of our country.
So stop being a moronic asshole and shut the fuck up about shit of which you have no knowledge.