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the remedy to all these concerns is an informed and responsive electorate.
in a republic where all are free to spend as much money as they like on lobbying any issue... corruption is inevitable. it isn't as if these men were simply doing distasteful things that rub us wrong... they broke the standing law of the land. enacting new laws won't fix a problem when circumventing law is the disease.
if the electorate simply holds politicians accountable: demanding that existing laws are enforced, voting against corruption when they have the chance... that'll go farther than any reform with a prayer of being passed in Washington ever will.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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