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Why is it a blanked statement that “govt is corrupt” such a universal truth?

People can be corrupt too - musk redirected Tesla resources to build his glass house

It's just the time we live in, a time of relative peace and disinterest in matters of government. People are able to live without investing in politics, so what we have is full of zealots and wanna-be despots who have something to gain.

P.S. the citizens united ruling in the US opened the floodgates for political corruption on a scale not previously possible. It's been talked about but remains unresolved.

Governments are corporations too, just the only ones with a monopoly on violence.

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