(04-20-2022, 10:19 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(04-20-2022, 08:41 PM)mikesez Wrote: I know all of that.
You got an outsider into the white house for four years and what did he do to address this problem? Did he propose even one anti-corruption bill? Did he do anything to close the revolving door between the regulators and the regulated?
America has corruption, no doubt, as the video points out.  But we have a lot less than most other places.
The thing that saves us is checks and balances between President, Congress, and Judges, and separate local elections for state and local officials.  Most places around the world have their national Congress appoint their national executive and also their local governors, much more corrupt that way.  You might not like Biden or you might not like DeSantis and both are corrupt in their own ways, but when they compete for power and attention it greatly reduces corruption.
But if we want to do even better, the only avenues open to us are amending the state constitution so we have different voting procedures or stricter anti-revolving-door laws, and working within the parties to change their procedures and bylaws to be less corrupt.  
Amending the federal constitution is basically impossible.
Better ethics rules for US Congress would be nice, like greater disclosures and no stock trading, that's actually enforceable.  Changing committee and seniority rules within Congress would be nice but it's not really enforceable.
Other than that we can hope for a President who prioritizes these types of issues, but, that's unlikely to happen.  
Whether we are talking about corporate ladders, or elected office, if you do well enough in the game to get to the high office, you're probably going to think that the rules of the game are great and don't need to be changed.

I was talking about Trump. We have had more of a spotlight than ever on the corruption in DC because of Trump. Did he fix it? No. That's our job. Start voting these vultures out.