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I mean genuinely, in my limited but non trivial experience here, it’s that simple. Is just generally not this out in the open, and brazen. That says a lot abou
by AndrewKemendo 3y ago
I mean genuinely, in my limited but non trivial experience here, it’s that simple. Is just generally not this out in the open, and brazen.
That says a lot about where we have gotten as a country, that brazen corruption is overlooked to such a degree that people do not feel that it affects them.
The Overton window in action
- epistasis 3y agoWhat are you talking about when you say "people do not feel like it affects them"? Because all across the political spectrum people are furious about this today.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoI was recently talking with one of my close friends who has been a state senator for about a decade now. They said that, whereas when they got into politics seriously in the 2000s there was an expectation that you were elected to serve your constituents and if “something happened to fall off the table into your pocket” it was kind of overlooked. Compare this to now, where if you do not come into an election with corporate sponsorship, with increasingly specific grift-based policy goals, the corporate money lobby will just over power you to stay off the ballot or crush you with propaganda Kari Lake a Republican talked about how she was approached recently to basically no response anywhere.