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Originally Posted by Rodney
All politics is local, they say; and national corruption means local corruption in federal elections, as the national players promise money and favor to the state players, who in turn pass along preferences and money to the local players.
It's "machine" politics pure and simple: pun intended, and it will happen whenever there are no checks. Thinking otherwise, or thinking that this problem is purely local, is willful blindness at best.
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Thank you, Rodney. You said that far better than I could.