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How The US Legalized Corruption (indica.medium.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (2 children)

Corruption has been legal since 1776; there's not a day in this country where things weren't corrupt, either morally or legally or what-have-you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago

Yeah, I'm just reading Parenti's Democracy for the Few and it really lays out how the whole country has been bought and paid for from the start.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

Way before that. It's been legal since the start of countries/empires as a concept.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the history of the United States in particular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Then it's been legal since the Europeans set foot on the soil of what's now the US. Let's not kid ourselves in thinking the American revolution was about anti-tyranny. It was just about some other people wanting to be the tyrants in place of the then current tyrants.