Subject: Re: klepto style drift
an alarming marker of embedded kleptocracy is the trickle-down corruption to much of society.
it can advance to the point where it is unlikely the economy can function at all w/out it. (see russia, iran, etc...)

Thank you weatherman.

This is one of my greatest fears about the possible lasting effects of Trumpism: corruption so deep and pernicious we can never get back to a civil society mostly free of corruption.

Sure, there has always been a low level of corruption, but the country had safeguards that caught and punished corruption. Now that seems to be becoming a thing of the past.

And the Republican Party seems fine with it, as long as it seems to be benefitting them. Not the rank and file, but the power brokers in the party and their oligarch supporters.

Trump to his MAGA followers: FU, I never gave a shit about you and once you gave me your vote I could toss you aside like the garbage I really see you as.

This fish rots from the head.