back channels

there are days when listening, reading or watching the news makes you smile. you hear stuff that government is doing this and doing that... strengthening ties with people, providing more and more opportunities for employment and then when you see friends in business and you talk to the players behind the scenes, you wake up from this reverie and true enough, its still the name old bullshit (pardon my language).

open your back channels, and you'll find the same dealing, the same under the table mess, the same power positioning... all in the name of money, of personal gain.

what would it take to move forward?