Joe Mannix
Much ink has been spilled – including by me – about the deplorable state of integrity within the government and other institutions. The institutions are hopelessly corrupt and operate for their own benefit and without any checks or balances. They take as take can, and to hell with the consequences. Those consequences are largely paid for by the little people or those who fall out of favor. It’s classical Party corruption and our institutions and systems are lousy with it.
Our institutions are so full of corruption that it isn’t unreasonable to call it total. Every major institution from the government agencies and legislatures and courts to the universities to the major corporations to the NGOs to the school boards and so on down the line is hopelessly, even diabolically corrupt. What we have in this country (and what is present in many other countries) is essentially total institutional corruption. It is systemic corruption in that all official systems of size are corrupted. This is not good by any means, but it could be worse – and we’ll get there if the trend continues.
The flip side of total systemic corruption is that some things – things outside the major power system – are not corrupt. Daily life is not too bad in this regard. You can go to the supermarket and be reasonably confident that you will get what it says you’ll get on the tin. The odds of being ripped off by a random stranger aren’t terribly worse now than they used to be. The level of fraud, theft, abuse, etc. between and among people and during the routine work of daily life is not the defining characteristic of everyday interactions. In this regard, our total systemic corruption intersects with the wider population arbitrarily and with no mercy, but things are okay until the evil eye of the corrupt falls on you.
The next stage from systemic corruption is what I call endemic corruption – the condition where all things are corrupt in all respects and between all people at all times. In such an environment, none of the normal honesty of daily life is present. You buy food and find that it is fake and the package is either empty or it contains some ersatz food. You buy a house and find that it falls apart moments after you move in. You buy goods and find that they are counterfeit. The reports you use at work are all doctored and the company transparently lies about everything they do. Everything from financial statements to pollution controls to mileage to the octane content of gasoline is fabricated. The machinery with which you interact is manipulated to count high for things you buy and low for things where you get paid. Your money is stolen and contracts are unfulfilled. You can spin the wheel in the courts, but then the official corruption intersects and if you’re not in favor, you lose. Party favor gives some the right to behave with impunity in all aspects of life, and the rest just have to get abused.
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And become abusers. In a world without morality in a condition of endemic corruption when everything from weights and measures to ingredient lists to business practices are a lie, only a sucker tries to follow the rules. You get ripped off, sure, but you’re not above ripping someone else off. Survival is survival. You might not like it, but you’ll probably do it – especially when your boss tells you to go ahead and use timber to reinforce concrete instead of steel, or else be fired. The problem compounds with each turn of the crank. The primary problem to be solved is no longer “how do I do the right thing” but rather “how do I not get caught?” Societies with endemic corruption are, in a word, exploitative. Everyone exploits everyone else at all times.
If you want a vision of how such a world looks, cast your sight across the Pacific to Red China. For as bad as a lot of the crap they export is, the domestic market is often worse. Fake food, fake construction, fake goods, fake measures, fake numbers, fake everything.
In Nazi Germany, all government agencies were corrupt with party leeches in charge of everything. Due to the people who have always done the work, most agencies still functioned efficiently even as the corrupt administrators were skimming funds. Until the war began going against Germany and the agencies were put under harsh strain, that is; then the lack of leadership brought about failure and collapse.
Reading the book Five Families about the NYC Mafia families, we see how Democrat regimes in cities and states worked hand in hand with the criminal organizations. When Republicans came to power (Dewey, LaGuardia, etc), the crime and corruption was fought and limited. When Democrats came back, the quid pro quo resumed.
The lesson is that the left is instinctively and naturally inclined to corruption. It’s part of their DNA. They don’t get into government to benefit the nation or the people; they get into it for the vast amounts of cash and power that are handled and which can be exploited for personal gain.
Trump was an existential threat to this reality. That’s why he is relentlessly attacked by the corrupt.
Biden is a Globalists he sells our oil to China at a time like this to Benefit his Son this is more reasons he should not only Impeached but tried for Treason