Wry Catcher
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- #21
If you can't separate the corporate world from politics then you are indeed simple of mind.
Corporations are self serving entities by definition. Corporations do not have the power of systemic reach that government has.
Politicians are not supposed to be self serving entities and have the power to alter our lives at every level and we all know that all politicians are more concerned with keeping their jobs rather than doing their jobs.
And compare how many corporations get away with tax fraud to the number of pols that do. There is an undeniable concentration of corruption in government.
Greater evil is like being more pregnant. Next time you call someone simple of mind maybe you ought to look in a mirror.
You preception is based on your bias (and possibly because you are simple of, mind? btw, in psyc 101 the first lecture in my freshman year the prof made a point, there is no such thing as a "mind", it is a literary invention).
As for tax fraud, how do you think (excuse the expression) ... why do you believe corporations engage in less fraud than do pols? My answer, because corporations buy members of congress to vote them tax benefits. Does that idea challlenge your brain?
Not at all the fact that politicians can be bought actually proves my point.
The one who accepts a bribe is actually more corrupt than the one offering the bribe. Especially so when the one accepting the bribe is a public servant.
And again corporations and politics are apples and oranges so a comparison is not valid as far as corruption goes for the very simple reason I mentioned earlier so maybe you are actually brain damaged seeing you can't make that distinction.
LOL, your final sentence is a give-away. Human nature is human nature, much as 2 = 2; to offer a bribe and to accept a bribe is a criminal act, by both public employees and private individuals. In fact the system allows elected officials to take money, so called donations, but prohibits bribes, i.e. Quid pro quo. On might posit that all donors are attempting to bribe public officals but unless a public official engages in Quid pro quo voting s/he is acting legally and the private citizens has committed a Felony. Of course intent would be hard to prove in both cases.
Which is why Citizen United v. FEC further encourages the 'bribery' of public officials and is the most dangerous threat to our Republic ever decided by the Supreme Court.
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