Yes we can hope to vote out the bad & replace them with true, ethical statesmen & women, but that is expecting more than the disinterested general public is apt to do. 
   So a few good people get in there, their efforts will be suffocated by the dominant establishment .. & some will convert to be "just like the rest".
   The best antidote for bad government is to limit its powers & the best hope we Alaskans have for good government is to impose appropriate ETHICS RULES on the Legislature, as that scoundrel-dominated body will never do it to themselves. Resident citizens can ... & should, draft a serious set of rules, get it on the ballot by Initiative ..... & pass it.  The contributors to defeat such an initiative would be interesting. 
  The alternative is that we acquiesce as the PFD disappears & the PF is drained right into the pockets of BigOil & mega-project bottomless pits.