[inanutshellus]

Putting effort* into normalizing disenfranchisement is propaganda for the bad guys.

That's my personal revelation.

But to your point, perhaps "just as corrupt" should have been "are, surprisingly, complicit in that corruption".

* "Effort" in this case being "going to the effort of posting". Be checked out? Sure. Being checked out is not my argument. Instead, being engaged-but-jaded and thus broadcasting "corruption is normal" (and thus penalizing corruption is "weird") is /itself/ corrupting.