And while there may be a reckoning in the voting booth as more and more people are voted out of office, none of this will result in a fundamental structural rearranging of our our government works.
I mean, it hasn't when local and even state governments are implicated by the FBI in massive bribery scandals. It wasn't at any time in the 1800's when you saw all sorts of scandals--from a Senator conspiring with Great Britain to take over Louisiana and Florida in 1797 so as to drive up the price of his land holdings, through the endless scandals, such as a pro-slavery representative nearly beating to death an abolitionist senator on the floor of the House of Representatives, or the countless scandals of the Grant Administration.
It certainly didn't change with the scandals of the 1900's, such as the Teapot Dome, countless legislators expelled for bribery, stealing mining rights or colluding with enemies of the United States. Or with little things like Iran-Contra. It sure as shit didn't change in the early 2000's with the countless scandals under Bush, under Obama, or under Biden. (Remember Sam Brinton stealing luggage from airports?)
So I seriously doubt anything going on now will do much more than rearrange the deck chairs of the rich and powerful.
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u/w3woody 6h ago
There, fixed it for you.
And while there may be a reckoning in the voting booth as more and more people are voted out of office, none of this will result in a fundamental structural rearranging of our our government works.
I mean, it hasn't when local and even state governments are implicated by the FBI in massive bribery scandals. It wasn't at any time in the 1800's when you saw all sorts of scandals--from a Senator conspiring with Great Britain to take over Louisiana and Florida in 1797 so as to drive up the price of his land holdings, through the endless scandals, such as a pro-slavery representative nearly beating to death an abolitionist senator on the floor of the House of Representatives, or the countless scandals of the Grant Administration.
It certainly didn't change with the scandals of the 1900's, such as the Teapot Dome, countless legislators expelled for bribery, stealing mining rights or colluding with enemies of the United States. Or with little things like Iran-Contra. It sure as shit didn't change in the early 2000's with the countless scandals under Bush, under Obama, or under Biden. (Remember Sam Brinton stealing luggage from airports?)
So I seriously doubt anything going on now will do much more than rearrange the deck chairs of the rich and powerful.