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Takket

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11. that rating is sort of misleading.....

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 11:44 PM

Dec 2014

if corruption is essentially your leaders breaking the law, then no we aren't that corrupt. the US has taken the far more insidious approach of making things that should be illegal, legal. Citizens United for instance. we basically legalized corporate brainwashing of the populace.

if you were to show me a chart displaying a rating for the morality of our laws and public officials, I would expect our rating on said chart to have plummeted, pretty much since Reagan started to destroy the middle class.

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2014 Global Corruption Level map is out, and I am surprised where the USA stands on it. [View all] dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 OP

Why are you suprised? Eudaimonic Dec 2014 #1

Really? You think the US government isn't corrupt? truebluegreen Dec 2014 #3

Compared to a lot of places? Good lord, no. You can get a document without bribing someone Recursion Dec 2014 #12

These are "perceived levels". canoeist52 Dec 2014 #2

"Based on expert opinion from around the world" dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #4

Which major country that had a worse ranking would you say is better than the USA? muriel_volestrangler Dec 2014 #6

If a country has a worst ranking than the USA, dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #7

If it has a worse ranking, then the site's 'experts' think it's worse, but not necessarily you muriel_volestrangler Dec 2014 #8

Not surprised at all hack89 Dec 2014 #5

Seems about right. Igel Dec 2014 #9

Of related interest canoeist52 Dec 2014 #10

that rating is sort of misleading..... Takket Dec 2014 #11

Corruption in the US really just isn't comparable to corruption in the developing world Recursion Dec 2014 #13