“I don’t hate people that use legal means to succeed.”
I don’t either. I hate people who criticize others for doing the exact same thing they are doing themselves.
You postulate an impossible situation. If you need to pay to play for your business to survive but you don’t like the system do you speak out? Who listens, you are a nobody and now you are a broke nobody.
Or do you play the cards you are dealt and win. Then you have the muscle to change the game. Trump knows he’s the only one (perhaps a few others exist but they are not willing to take it on) that can become POTUS without being gelded by being bought.
I don’t think its about criticism. I think its about letting the sunshine in and making people aware of the consequences of the present “Standard Operating Procedure”.