They get paid lots of money because they are corruptible, that is the only fundamental reason. They are bought and paid for.
All you need to do is find out who is paying them (which shouldn't be too hard, though the dems use a lot of ghost funding, funneling donations through thousands of sock puppets who make huge numbers of small ($10-$25) donations), then hang them for treason and go after all of their funders.
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