Quote:Corruption has been a problem a whole lot longer than 30 years. If was just simply the wrong people that wouldn't be the case.


Power corrupts especially power at the federal level, you'll never give a group of people that much power and have them successfully refrain from corruption.

I don't know, man. That seems to me to be either a cop out, or a defeatist attitude--maybe both.


It's obvious that when you form an organization, there will be an inclination towards corruption. We all know the saying, "power corrupts..."


So to just throw ones hands in the air and say, well we need to castrate the federal government, seems like giving up. You realize killing the federal government that is run via a democratic republic would create power vacuum. That vacuum would be filled by what?


I believe you would say, by businesses... Businesses are not run democratically...


You may not like our federal system, but if you like our democratic republic, you don't try to destroy it from within, you try to fix it's weaknesses. The weakness I see is that the oligarchs are running the show and creating policies that benefit only a small group at the detriment of the rest of us yahoos.

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