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by ncmncm 1550 days ago
America’s greatest success used to be the rule of law, stable republican government, and the protection of private property.

Now, the US has the greatest degree of high-level corruption in the world, second perhaps only to China. In China, corruption is technically still illegal, but permitted to the Party faithful. In the US, it has all been made explicitly legal.

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