The Mafia managed to own some officials but not the country, though "clean" (like coal) corporate organized crime is another matter. Ask Dick Durbin. I am not sure that political corruption, or at least such republic-threatening corruption as we now see, has ever gone this deep in US governance (arguably native genocide and slavery, our …
The Mafia managed to own some officials but not the country, though "clean" (like coal) corporate organized crime is another matter. Ask Dick Durbin. I am not sure that political corruption, or at least such republic-threatening corruption as we now see, has ever gone this deep in US governance (arguably native genocide and slavery, our nation's original sins, are even more antithetical to our published ideals). In any case, corruption is on a tear to a degree that we all now seem a bit numbed to it, and yet it's a deadly business.
I think corruption is abuse of power. So is tyranny.
The Mafia managed to own some officials but not the country, though "clean" (like coal) corporate organized crime is another matter. Ask Dick Durbin. I am not sure that political corruption, or at least such republic-threatening corruption as we now see, has ever gone this deep in US governance (arguably native genocide and slavery, our nation's original sins, are even more antithetical to our published ideals). In any case, corruption is on a tear to a degree that we all now seem a bit numbed to it, and yet it's a deadly business.
I think corruption is abuse of power. So is tyranny.