US crime why do they do it an Augustine oveview

 In the , Confessions Augustine  recalls how he  stole fruit, not because he was hungry, but because "it was not permitted."^[62] His very nature, he says, was flawed. 'It was foul, and I loved it. I loved my own error—not that for which I erred, but the error itself."^[62] From this incident he concluded the human person is naturally inclined to sin, and in need of the grace of Christ, 

or in the current US led by corrupt politiicans who don't tell you why they stole, but just brazenly deny all wrong doing

- poor American voter to be led by such career politicians

subtext in the opinion of many the profoundly ignorant criminal class