Members of dysfunctional families across the country must be looking at Pennsylvania right now and feeling reassured that, despite all their problems, things could always be worse.

They could live in a state whose leaders prefer grandstanding to governing; which has a top lawyer who very soon won’t actually be a lawyer; and which enjoys a laundry list of political and government corruption and indecency scandals that stretches back decades.

It’s difficult right now to say what exactly about our state government there is to be proud of.

It’s certainly not our General Assembly, governor or attorney general, who are at turns inept, irresponsible, childish and embarrassingly tone-deaf — not to mention scandalous and allegedly criminal in the meantime.

How does Attorney General Kathleen Kane justify drawing on her taxpayer-funded $158,764 salary when in just 27 days she won’t legally be able to act in her most vital capacity as an elected official?

That is: being a lawyer. The temporary suspension of Kane’s law license by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday means she can’t prosecute defendants.

Kane — who has been charged with perjury, obstruction and other crimes — is now a defendant herself. Does anyone seriously believe her focus will be on her job when she’s facing a trial and jail time?

How do our state legislators justify the millions of dollars taxpayers continue to funnel to them and their thousands of staffers, when Pennsylvanians have now endured 86 days without a state spending plan?

Social service organizations and public schools are now casting about, some in genuine desperation, for ways to stay afloat while this unnecessary and ham-handed scenario plays out.

Meanwhile, the people failing to perform one of the most basic duties of their offices continue to draw a paycheck.

Gov. Tom Wolf, a millionaire businessman who has donated his own salary back to the state, is equally at fault. The governor has offered what amounts to no compromise at all on issues like pension reform and Pennsylvania’s antiquated monopoly on liquor sales. Where is the savvy businessman who sold voters on his desire to actually accomplish things?

Wolf was elected on the promise of running Pennsylvania like the successful businesses that made him his fortune. Rather, it seems like he views those successes as a golden parachute that allow him to inflict statewide pain to make a point on principle. Is that how a businessman runs his operation?

Pennsylvania is in terrible shape. With a cast of irresponsible “leaders” at the wheel, it’s hard to see how things get worse — or better — from here.