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I think the rest of the world have realized, even before most Americans, just how cheap our politicians can be bought for. Not billions, not millions, but for a
by yardie 1y ago
I think the rest of the world have realized, even before most Americans, just how cheap our politicians can be bought for. Not billions, not millions, but for a few thousand dollars you can get a member of congress to scuttle a bill or praise a despot. A few million dollars gets you a national social media disinformation campaign. And for $200k, membership into Mar-a-Lago “country club”.
Our government sold out our ideals for cheap.
- Paianni 1y agoAs if your government ever had genuine ideals other than profit...
- HexDecOctBin 1y agoThe fiction of idealistic government was easier to maintain because the ruthlessness was either shows to foreigners or to domestic unwanteds. Only now that the cream of the crop back home is getting impacted that suddently all these realisations are setting in.
- danaris 1y agoThe excellent TV show Leverage pointed this out incisively over a decade and a half ago. This clip [0] from the very second episode (excuse the potato quality; it's what I could find quickly) says basically what you do. It was aired in 2008. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbE3q4oO2JQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbE3q4oO2JQ
- yardie 1y agoHollywood movies would make you believe you needed briefcases of money or exotic, Swiss bank accounts to corrupt the political machine. With James Bond levels of manipulation. And it is so much cheaper and more mundane than that. I honestly assumed you had to donate $10k dinner plate to a politician for them to do more than email you a boilerplate response.