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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Lane3 who wrote (221075)12/27/2021 12:11:02 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (3) of 363004
 
>> We know that a wealthy man injected money into voting operations. We know that grants have selection criteria. We don't know what those selection criteria were. If the selection criteria were reasonable and objective, then I don't see how it would be corrupt.

>> We don't know what those selection criteria were. If the selection criteria were reasonable and objective, then I don't see how it would be corrupt.

If you support this you are condoning and supporting political corruption. The argument that it depends on how the money is distributed is the problem, but it is a problem with no resolution.

There is a way of doing this that is NOT corrupt, of course -- but that wouldn't satisfy Zuckerberg's -- or ANYONE's criteria. Funds would be deposited into a stand-alone nonprofit that had an independent board made up of perfectly balanced decisionmakers. Exactly the same number representing Republicans vs. Democrats vs. Independents. And every decision had to be unanimous or the money would not be distributed.

Problem solved.

Look, if Zuckerberg had wanted to have a fair distribution, he could have made that happen. But he didn't. The funds were distributed in accordance with where it would guarantee a Democrat "win". If you do that you are no longer a Democracy.

If you condone it, you supporting the abandonment of democratic principles for a method of gaining a permanent advantage.

Don't expect that Republicans aren't going to try to close such a glaring hole in the law.

But fixing the law after the election was stolen is sort of like slamming the barn shut after the horses have run. You've lost the country and the strategy changes to trying to recapture democracy after it has been stolen. It is not going to be easy.
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