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by ConfuciusSay02 3352 days ago
It's a question of sheer amount of corruption. We're at a point where the revolving door has become an expressway, and the connection has become so hardened, that the only option becomes to shut them down.

Most agencies are now captured by the large interests. https://i.imgur.com/UiH0Dmb.png https://i.imgur.com/ZQsJN6T.png

Anyone who mentions anything about this must face an army of shills and dependents, while actual whistleblowing goes unreported and ignored. https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JessRowlandMari...

Sure, in a perfect world you'd rather have functioning agencies operating in the public interest, but people need to remember that every agency created represents yet another attack surface for corruption.

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> We're at a point where the revolving door has become an expressway,

Yes

> and the connection has become so hardened,

maybe (but probably not)

> that the only option becomes to shut them down

Not even close.

The answer is to prosecute the corruption, not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

So your answer is to rely on the DoJ, that itself is so corrupt it couldn't prosecute its way out of a paper bag?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the entire system is corrupt to the core.