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We arent gonna call it kompromat, or exerting influence, or pork-barrel politics, or arm-twisting. This is showing someone a video clip or a series of bank statements, or documentable stories about the offspring, or documents which are criminally incriminating to the elected official, his or her spouse, or any very very bad publicity.
The fact of the matter is that the vast number of individuals possess moments in their past which are problematic in this regard. People in the political sphere often have easier access and frequency to exploit their desires and lusts, and as we adults know, many behaviors practiced behind closed curtains are not consistent with the public persona of the individual. For instance, I knew that a well-known businessman here in Philadelphia was addicted to coprophilia. Another wife of a famous politician here was an embezzler of charitable and political donations and was constantly being arrested for shoplifting in many center city stores. Any of these stories if provable, and they were, would have destroyed these individuals politically and financially, since much income is derived from the familial proximity to the individual of importance.
In my opinion, each of these people have been warned, or the people who control them, and those people do exist, have been warned. We are living by the rules of the big-city mob of the Thirties. Make no mistake.
madaboutharry
(40,153 posts)Im afraid to google it.
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)Fiction 40 years ago and reality today.