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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I mean, if politicians that demonstrated themselves to be corrupt regularly lost their elections then voting would be enough. Americans spent decades electing and re-electing the worst people imaginable, though, so now more than that is needed to fix things.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Battling corruption is something that never stops the second people go to sleep it continues unabated. Its not a war you can win, its an endless battle.

    Democracy is first about making demands and unless we want somebody telling politicians our needs on behalf of us (almost always a corporation or the wealthy trying to do this) just voting and then going to sleep is a recipe for corruption. Its how we got here.

    You have to elect politicians AND make demands of them, else the squeaky billionaire gets the grease.

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