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0 pointskls14y ago0 comments

You want your company to succeed, Politician XYZ generally supports ideas that are beneficial to your company, so you support that candidate financially so he stays in office.

I think that qualifies as corruption, it is promoting a specific agenda that is beneficial to you over others and using insider influence to do so. It is just pre-issue as opposed to post-issue. It's kind of like the Mob paying off the cops just in case they need them. They are still in the pocket of the influence.

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polyfractal14y ago

It's a grey area.

Is it corruption to vote for politicians that support your beliefs, such as gay rights? Is it corruption to donate money to those campaigns to help their chance of being elected?

I'm not writing a blank check for all lobbying. It is a clearly broken industry with absolutely enormous power, far greater than it really should have. But it is also a fundamentally democratic principle.

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