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Post by The Inspector on Jun 27, 2019 12:51:23 GMT -5
The corruption I mean has less to do with individual perfidy than institutional depravity. It isn’t an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isn’t about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of power—power as an end in itself, justifying almost any means. Political corruption usually trails financial scandals in its wake—the foam is scummy with self-dealing—but it’s far more dangerous than graft. There are legal remedies for Duncan Hunter, a representative from California, who will stand trial next year for using campaign funds to pay for family luxuries.* But there’s no obvious remedy for what the state legislatures of Wisconsin and Michigan, following the example of North Carolina in 2016, are now doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/how-did-republican-party-get-so-corrupt/578095/The UN-ethical, cold hearted, war mongering GOP, What was the last war started by Democrats.
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Post by tnthomas on Jun 27, 2019 15:06:59 GMT -5
...more from the article: The GOP has to lie, cheat and try to 'stack the deck' in order to increase their chance of winning, because the really have NOTHING to attract votes from the average citizen, because their only agenda is to take as much of the Nation's wealth as possible from the working class, and horde it for corporate and wealthy interests.
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