That's awesome.
God help us if we ever get a competent authoritarian into office who's cunning enough not to say the corrupt part out loud.
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BTW, I view most politicians from both parties, DNC, and RNC to be corrupt, controlled by special interests.
Not to go to far afield here, but I will vote for either a democrat or republican based on public records of who their donors are. Turns out that based on this criteria I usually vote for Democrats but not always.
The other half is to realize that in the US representative democracy, the people who change policy are the ones who are dedicated enough to the task to make a career out of it, at the expense of other things they could be doing. Because the system isn't managed by the will of the people; it's managed by the will of the subset of the people who put the (quite large amount of) effort in to be known and heard. Most Americans don't even do the base work of showing up to vote in every election (and the turnout numbers are too low to explain that effect by voter suppression alone).
Those with other things to do and not enough time to be devoted full-time to policy-craft label those who do "special interests."
The NRA is a special interest, but so is the ACLU. And the NAACP. And the AFL-CIO. And the EFF.
