In the Roman Republic, it was understood that officials needed to line their pockets as much and as quickly as possible during their limited time in office. This is why term limits are also bad when combined with low pay.
Yes that is how you get to modern US pre-Trump. There’s still corruption, it’s more hidden, and managed enough that the less marginalized middle/upper class have relative safety/stability. Compare that to the other large economies, it was doing retty well for its size, and certainly much better than centuries past.
@Soleos@Phil_in_here It was weird when Joe won. I saw a shadow govt going on (the maggot mafia) while Joe and dems won … No clue what the shadow govt was doing but continuing the coup they all started.
In the Roman Republic, it was understood that officials needed to line their pockets as much and as quickly as possible during their limited time in office. This is why term limits are also bad when combined with low pay.
Or we could try more strict anti-corruption checks and balances with real, tangible consequences.
Yes that is how you get to modern US pre-Trump. There’s still corruption, it’s more hidden, and managed enough that the less marginalized middle/upper class have relative safety/stability. Compare that to the other large economies, it was doing retty well for its size, and certainly much better than centuries past.
@Soleos @Phil_in_here It was weird when Joe won. I saw a shadow govt going on (the maggot mafia) while Joe and dems won … No clue what the shadow govt was doing but continuing the coup they all started.
That’s not a shadow government, that’s just government. They weren’t even trying to be subtle about it.
@Soleos I didn’t know. I just knew it was happening simultaneously and didn’t hear anything about it from Biden’s WH. Thanks much.