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The metric I referred to was perceptions of corruption. The US is 67th on that list. Americans have a really low impression of their representatives' fidelity,
by vintermann 5y ago
The metric I referred to was perceptions of corruption. The US is 67th on that list. Americans have a really low impression of their representatives' fidelity, despite stuff like petty bribes being uncommon.
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021 https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021
- roenxi 5y agoReplying a bit quickly so you might want to edit it but, you say 67th and that is a misread. The US is actually 27th/28th on the list. It ranks pretty well. Particularly when the competition is somewhere like Denmark/Finland/New Zealand in slot one. I mean, sure. 6 million people is a mid-tier US state. There are probably some cracking good local councils out there too. The scale isn't impressive as far as 8 billion humans reckon it. If we want to break the world up into >1,000 countries with independent governments I'd consider that a step in the right direction for small government and cracking down on corruption.
- vintermann 5y agoRight, it has a score of 67, it's not 67th. Thanks for the correction.
- denton-scratch 5y agoCorruption in US politics is open and transparent; senators and congressmen can't get elected without campaign donations, and everyone knows that donations come with strings. It's hardly surprising if a senator from a hypothetical coal-mining state, who openly accepts donations from coal-mining interests, and who owns a mining company himself, blocks anti-carbon initiatives.