Reply #28: I agree, 3, 4 and one I didn't mention [View All]

which has been brought up on other threads which is :

outright blackmail.

I do believe that power corrupts. How is it that so many people enter Congress or the Senate with somewhat normal levels of personal wealth and they leave years later with far greater wealth? Just lucky? How do so many leave and go immediately into jobs in the private sector that were so connected to their actions/inactions in the public sector? Why do so many have family members employed in lobbying firms? I don't think most politicians just stand up to even the most cursory scrutiny of their private connections, investments,family connections, etc. AND THEY ALL KNOW IT. The Greg Palast book had a great title -
we do have the

BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY

only money can't buy an actual democracy, it can only purchase the illusion of one and it's only a matter of time before the illusion crumples or implodes through corruption.

That is what we are witnessing. The whole system is so entirely corrupt that we have no defenders - we have no politicians with "clean hands". Somehow, either when they were new and naive, or old and jaded - they bought personally into "Everyone does it" -whether it was junkets, or dinners, or jobs for relatives, or a job when they are out of office, or a boat, or a foundation or a library, or an offshore account.

The silence is deafening.