I’m a big believer that the biggest threat to the USA comes not from politics, but from crooked officials of both Parties and corporate money feeding into politics.
Once the mindset of corruption and bribes is embedded in our culture it will feed on itself and become acceptable, and then we are in big trouble unless we like living the banana third world republic lifestyle.
The only way this stuff gets exposed and stopped is from the inside out and through whistle blowers who are rewarded significantly to expose evil stuff. There is also too much crony corruption between the media as they have their cronies that they protect. They will pick and chose the stories that do not enrage the public. They took good care of their Wall Street friends after the crash by not enraging the public with the facts. The crooked judges are the worst of the lot and they are often protected.
“crooked officials of both Parties and corporate money feeding into politics”
Agreed. Both the Republican Party and the Democrat Party both believe in big government, and the only issue is what pet projects they want to fund through big government and what favored corporations they want to reward.
With some exceptions there’s little difference between a Democrat and a Republican, and they all support the well-connected establishment and the partisan bickering over supposed policy differences is all for show. Ever since President Reagan I’ve heard the GOP say let’s eliminate the Dep’t of Education, Energy, etc., and nothing is ever done. They all have too much invested in the system to really change it.
“Once the mindset of corruption and bribes is embedded in our culture it will feed on itself...”
Plato warned us about this ~2600 years ago in his Republic. Even then, the cycle of revolution, freedom, corruption, dictatorship, and revolution was in play. The United States is no exception, it seems.
Still, historically, our 230+ year run is pretty respectable.
“Once the mindset of corruption and bribes is embedded in our culture it will feed on itself...”
Plato warned us about this ~2600 years ago in his Republic. Even then, the cycle of revolution, freedom, corruption, dictatorship, and revolution was in play. The United States is no exception, it seems.
Still, historically, our 230+ year run is pretty respectable.