So Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance dropped case against Trump kids after a big donation

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17. US has legalized political corruption

Any politician who takes campaign money to favor a contributor is by usual definition, corrupt.
The US has just decided, farcically, that such implicit quid pro quos are technically legal.
There is no bigger issue corrupting US democracy than this.

Lots of reading here:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/books/review/zephyr-teachouts-corruption-in-america.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/in-theory/wp/2016/05/05/how-the-supreme-court-gets-corruption-totally-wrong/

How the Supreme Court gets corruption totally wrong

Members of Congress spend the majority of their time fundraising from wealthy donors, learning the smallest details about donors' lives — at the expense of learning about the policy details most relevant to their legislative work. When they're not fundraising, members may be anxious about meeting their fundraising quotas set by the national committees, or worried about offending the secret donors to powerful super PACs. This lurking fear undoubtedly shapes policy decisions, lest a wrong move trigger a deluge of attack ads from special interests.

The Supreme Court has said that none of this is corrupt or corrupting. That defies law, history and logic.

(You're using the technical legal defn of bribery discussed above. As the law stands today. That current law is a big problem for american democracy. It allows politicians to be purchased. That's what's created today's billionaire-controlled GOP.)