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Because the government, by and large, isn't corrupt. There are many corrupt individuals in government, but that's not the same thing. When it's common practice
by HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
Because the government, by and large, isn't corrupt. There are many corrupt individuals in government, but that's not the same thing.
When it's common practice to slip the town clerk a $50 to get your deck permit pulled in less than a month, then we can start to conclude that maybe government's corrupt.
- pdonis 3y agoYour definition of corruption is too narrow. The government is systemically corrupt because it is not doing what we the people authorized it to do. It is not protecting everyone's basic rights equally. It is favoring particular special interests (which include politicians themselves--Congress has single digit approval ratings but incumbent reelection rates in the nineties). This kind of corruption does not involve obvious violations of the letter of the law like overt bribery. But it's still corruption--and indeed it's worse than simple violations like bribery because it involves the entire system, using a process that was intended to do one thing to actually do other things that go against that one thing.