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In reply to the discussion: Chaffetz laundering - I posted this last night but it was late and people missed it. [View all]wiggs
(7,820 posts)it was OK as long as it's just bribery from our own citizens and our own corporations.
It is to be expected that this insatiable hunger for wealth and power would attract unscrupulous foreign money. Probably is not a new development. Not sure you can say anymore that large corporations belong to any one nation, and the same might be said for extremely wealthy individuals. They are their own economies, institutions, and forces. They seek to control all levels of government(s) including justice, voting, lawmakers, regulators, and administration.
Too much money at stake...too many fortunes...too much power, to leave it in the hands of democracy, I guess.
All the more reason for the sane, functional parts of government that hopefully still exist to come down hard on the treasonous bastards that have brought us to the edge of the cliff.