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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica?
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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (13233)4/9/1998 5:16:00 PM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (2) of 20981
 
But the two party system is pretty entrenched, so it will be very difficult.

Hope so. Just try living in a country with 25 political parties that are actually represented in the legislature. And another 300 or so hoping to get there. REALLY doesn't work. At all.

But speaking of corruption now and in the 19th century, I don't know how you measure corruption. Is it in dollars? Numbers of people screwed (literally and figuratively in the current example)?

I dunno either. But those guys were far, far more brazen, and my guess is that a great many more people were affected personally. My own great-grandfather, involved in machine politics in Philadelphia, either committed suicide or was murdered. Went sailing off the roof of the Bellevue-Stratford one summer's evening. I've always meant to try to find out more about it--could be fun--but never got round to it...
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