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Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning agains... by smsm42 on Monday December 18, 2017 @03:41AM (#15950310)
How what is described in the article - political group promoting their opinion - is "corruption"? Yes, some rich people may have financed that particular group - as rich people finance a lot of politically active groups - but what's corrupt in that? Did they bribe anyone? Did they break any laws?
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Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning agains... by neolefty on Monday December 18, 2017 @10:53AM (#15952435)
Legal corruption is still corruption. But to fix it you have to change the system, not just enforce existing rules. And in order to change the system, you have to have a better system ready and widespread support for it. That's hard.
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Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning agains... by smsm42 on Monday December 18, 2017 @01:34PM (#15953989)
OK, let me rephrase. How it is "legal corruption"? What's corrupt there in people trying to convince other people in their point of view? Is the "corrupt" part that the people doing the convincing happen to be rich and thus must be evil? What exactly needs fixing here? Should Kochs be banned from political advocacy? Should TPA be prohibited? Should opposition to municipal projects be banned? What exactly here needs fixing?
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