I don't think this is the way to go.

[Sympthsical]

22. It's what we have as leverage

“You won’t clean up your act? Here’s the punishment.”

Asking nicely doesn’t work. Look at what’s happening. Peaceful protests and people still being brutalized with impunity. These people will not give up power easily or voluntarily.

There has to an incentive for reform. “Reform or fewer funds.”

Works for me. It’s a tool. A bludgeonous one to be certain. But people with their kind of unchecked power only understand other power.