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> No one can make 50 year plans for China, like they can do with US Five years ago, I would have agreed with you about the US. But the direction that politics
by munificent 6y ago
> No one can make 50 year plans for China, like they can do with US
Five years ago, I would have agreed with you about the US. But the direction that politics have gone since then makes me a lot less sure.
The rate that corruption has grown under the Trump without repercussions is absolutely astonishing. Like any relationship, I don't know how that break in trust between the government and its citizens can be repaired.
- newfriend 6y agoGive me a break. Very little has effectively changed in the past five years, aside from the insane polarization of the media. The Trump administration's "astonishing rate of corruption" you are perceiving is being massively overstated by partisan media outlets. Previous administrations were free to engage in all manners of corruption, while the mainstream media touted their "coolness".
- aylmao 6y agoThere was definitley a lot of corruption in the USA before Trump. I do think it's also the case that under Trump things got more shameless, and so the administration "dares" to go further. This is worrisome, especially if you don't think corruption is endemic of the Trump administration. New "boundaries" have been tested and set. Future administrations have a playbook that can allow them to get away with more.