On 19/03/2021 13:23, Mayayana wrote:
> "Joe"  wrote |
>
> | >   Those are all common sense and common decency. The only
> | > reason they're not illegal is because the crime is frictionless and
> | > invisible, and the operation of it is not widely understood. Even
> | > the US Congress seems to have few people capable of
> | > understanding the stakes. If you think the problem is lack of
> | > public education then you're living in your own private Idaho.
> | >
> |
> | No. There are now people and businesses rich enough to buy entire
> | governments, or at least, political parties. That's the problem.
> |
>
>    Ah. Why didn't you say so? So it's hopeless. I guess
> I'll go back to bed.
>
>
It is not.

And one mechanism and one only has been shown to be effective to curb
this level of corruption, and that is the ballot box.

Once that is corrupted, and people become 'cancelled' and 'deplorable'
then you are truly lost

--
“Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of
other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance"

    -  John K Galbraith

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