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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

Why are businesses powerful for offering money but the state seems innocent for accepting it in exchange for power they sold ?

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Sarah Westall's avatar

No one is innocent. And anyone with a lot of money is powerful if used to control people. That's why blackmail works.

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

Money cannot control you unless you deem it necessary to take it

I am not sure I know of any politicians that fit that requirement

They ALL seem pretty rich to me whether left or right

The power of The COMPULSORY State can control anyone who is not as powerful and does not have the power to legalize their actions

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Sarah Westall's avatar

Blackmail has a strange way of controlling most politicians.

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Kojo's avatar

Some are indeed rather obvious under remote control for misdeeds they have undertaken. Lindsey Graham being one of the most obvious.

But for many others it's just blind greed enabled by the effect of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, opening the floodgates of political bribery.

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notBob's avatar

I think its incorrect to suggest that business is blackmailing politicians. Intelligence agencies have long used blackmail to control politicians. Its the CIA demanding a politician vote a particular way not pepsico.

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Sarah Westall's avatar

Hmm... not sure where i said "businesses" are blackmailing people. The powerful are blackmailing people.

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

No

Politicians have a strange way of making money by selling the power that they have

And blackmail implies a threat ?

Do you have those threats for those politicians in control ?

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Sarah Westall's avatar

The constitution was written as it was because power hungry psychopathic people want to rise to power. They are attracted to the political arena. Not all, but most. The constitution was written to reign in that issue. If you give more power to them thru your voting and support of policies, then you are giving more power to the kind you despise. Again, not all, but most. Blackmail works because those people are easier to control with some sort of blackmail. i.e. Blackmail is the currency of the powerful. As for your statement above, I don't know what you are implying or trying to say.

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

you said politicians were blackmailed

I simply wanted to known what the blackmail threats were

Whatever good things can be said about the constitution, it was based upon compulsory local states that the founders thought could be controlled in an official document.

There was no attempt to actually remove that power in the individual states first.

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