This is how corrupt our political system is.

[Uncle Joe]

https://www.facebook.com/massreport/videos/1199487966730885/

[maxsolomon]

1. Use your words

Not your links.

Question for you: is our Political System more or less "corrupt" than, say, Nigeria?

[Uncle Joe]

2. Our corruption is much more sanitary than Nigeria's, much more polished and shiny with a

slick veneer that sells or markets well on national corporate media conglomerate television.

Our corruption comes in attractive, eye-appealing colors, shapes and sizes, if you were shopping for corruption at the store, you would be much more likely to purchase ours' than the messy, bloody and yet brutally honest corruption package presented to you by Nigeria or other third world nations.

To many people buying the well marketed U.S. brand gives the added benefit of conscious salve, it doesn't even feel like corruption, "it's just the way it is."

[malaise]

3. +1,000

Nailed it - and being less vulgar about it doesn't mean it's OK.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Thanks, malaise our corruption is enshrined with "American Exceptionalism,"

we can do no wrong.

Actual videos of the results are too harsh to be telecast by corporate media conglomerates lest they upset the American People from their comfort levels.

Peace to you.

[ronnie624]

9. Being less vulgar

doesn't mean it's less harmful overall, either. The corruption that facilitated the invasion of Iraq, and that which enabled the collapse of the mortgage industry are prime examples.

[malaise]

12. The invasion of Iraq is the extreme end

Governments are overthrown across the globe, others face sabotage by their Chambers of Commerce on behalf of the corporate West and then there's just plain stealing at home and abroad.

And you're correct re the corrupt banks - then no one goes to prison because they finance the entire corrupt system.

[maxsolomon]

4. thanks for using your words.

i think your definition of corruption is overly broad, but at least you spelled it out instead of just providing a link.

if what we have is "corruption", then there's never been a time in our history that wasn't corrupt.

[Uncle Joe]

6. That's true maxsolomon but I believe we're at the apex of U.S. corruption carried in large part

by our so called free press's willful ignorance and skillful manipulation of mass propaganda.

The video on the link is just one small microcosm.

[Rex]

7. So we are now supposed to be okay with being compared to other corrupt nations?

Gee...did that video rub you the wrong way or what?

[ohnoyoudidnt]

11. When you consider the influence the United States has on issues like trade, the environment,

and war, corrupt politicians here are a much greater danger to the world than those in Nigeria.

[Rex]

8. That video should be the lead story in the M$M...however we all know the plutocracy doesn't work

that way.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. K&R