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I have seen six dozen trips around the Sun and I have never in my lifetime seen anything close to the corruption we are now experiencing in Washington, DC.
Donald Trump is skimming money from the taxpayers and the military to put into his own pocket. It is so blatantly criminal that it is unbelievable to most Americans.
Mitch McConnell refuses to pass legislation to protect our votes, even as he knows that foreign countries are intent on messing with our elections and our sacred right to vote. Why would he block a bill to protect the voters of this country?
It is a cesspool.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)so many ppl were primed and ready for corruption. for me, that's the bigger story
kentuck
(111,082 posts)Ignorance is evil.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)And WSJ, Heritage, AEI, etc persuade the GOP elite.
And all of that is funded/owned by rightwing billionaires.
The corruption of American democracy is caused by a handful of rightwing billionaires.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)A specific (late) rightwing billionaire is still doing damage from beyond the grave --
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212415599
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/27/christopher_leonard_kochland_koch_brothers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/27/death-destruction-david-koch-legacy
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)The WH, Congress, Health Care, Corporations, Wall Street, Rethuglicons, Politics and Elections are saturated with massive corruption. WTF are "we" going to do about it?! 2020 can not be allowed to be our demise.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)just for starters..
humm look at the club we belong to...
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)What an achievement!
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,142 posts)Who'd a thought it?
Tariffs must total $2 Billion a month. Plus every time the tariff war is on/off, you can go long YINN or YANG ETF's on the Chinese market.
You could make $15-20 Billion a year on these 2 rackets. Hell, you or I could make $200 a month and we're not in on the cash flow and don't even know what's going on!
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Zoonart
(11,855 posts)The entire administration is nothing but a criminal cartel, with the *Resident as the doddering mob boss; waiving his arms about and shouting orders as his seconds and children sharpen their knives for the power grab to come.
democrank
(11,094 posts)Hip boots wont even do the job anymore.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)One thing that has puzzled me about this level of corruption is how it showed that the constitution and the laws which were based upon it, all depended on a commitment to the common good of the country. None of us, who have had six dozen or more trips around the sun could have ever imagined that there would be people so immune to any sense of patriotism; any sense of propriety; any sense of justice that they would seek personal profit at the expense of our liberty.
I've never seen anything like this....
kentuck
(111,082 posts)How ya' doin'?
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)concentrations of wealth undermine local, more intimate and feedback-rich (read: ethical) social structures.
So I guess we have a clusterfuck.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)Glad to see you're still in the fight!
Keep it up my friend!
kentuck
(111,082 posts)And that's the problem. I hope our words still have meaning?
ewagner
(18,964 posts)finished my last council/board meetings on April 18 and proceeded to my 3rd heart attack on May 5....
Health has improved....I'm ready to get back into the game!
kentuck
(111,082 posts)Good luck with your health.
kentuck
(111,082 posts)I think the tech revolution has created a new war between the ignorant and uninformed vs educated and informed. It is the ignorance that is being manipulated by the Radicals. We fear the thought of the ignorant winning the war.
Just my opinion.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)The concept of demagoguery has been with us forever, but certainly social media has given it a rich source of uninformed, bigoted audiences.
good point.
spanone
(135,828 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)That is absolitely not true.
I, for one, have seen this since I became politically somewhat aware in 1980.... And I am sure millions of others have as well..
just not in such huge numbers of crooks and liars....
pangaia
(24,324 posts)letters to editor
protest on street corners-WITH friends
and anything else active you can do...
again and again
spanone
(135,828 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)"Joining me now is Soandso from Whatever newspaper or Entity for their take on the issue..." TRANSLATION: for their take which will be watered down and without emotion because god knows we wont allow them to be honest and say what is really their thoughts and opinions because god knows they would never be invited on this show again and besides we would god knows incur the wrath and scorn of donald jackass trump."