The rot in America is palpable; it oozes from the halls of our schools, drips like rancid water from the floors of Washington, and destroys the "unworthy." In our uniquely American version of Reform, there is an implied "moral" component that allows its promoters to accumulate power for themselves. Under the "reform" banner, the United States has been transformed from a nation designed to restrain centralized power to likely the most concentrated control-mechanism of all time.