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"Do you live in the United States? I ask this seriously, not sarcastically." I don't live in the United States now, but I have lived there and seen elections a
by plinkplonk 15y ago
"Do you live in the United States? I ask this seriously, not sarcastically."
I don't live in the United States now, but I have lived there and seen elections and politics at close range.
As to the rest I guess we will agree to differ on the idea that Israel (or any other country for that matter) has significantly cleaner politics or that United States pols plumb some depths of evil that politicians in other countries don't. YMMV etc.
- eli_gottlieb 15y agoIsraeli politics? Clean? By objective standards, oh dear God no. It's immensely corrupt. But it's not captive. Israeli politicians give away favors and embezzle because that's what they think they get for winning the Politics Game. American politicians don't (didn't?) actually embezzle that much from the government, because American politics are really just a rich person's game in the first place; why embezzle when insider trading is legal for legislators?