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To: neolib who wrote (9113)	12/16/2010 6:09:00 PM
From: one_less	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10087

"What happens when people spend large sums of money to confuse voters?" We trust our elected leaders and our social spokespersons to give us the straight and honest scoop. But what happens when they are entangled with the payoff. Most political corruption is a function of social influence, group think pressure, and the frailty of human character. In modern times it is exercised more often by what a person in power allows under their watch, than by personal actions committed directly by politicians. So this or that unseemly circumstance is not caused directly by particular politicians but allowed to take place none the less. This has been learned over centuries of watching how organized crime bosses are able to avoid incrimination and has become so endemic in the system as to be nearly unavoidable for politicians even in the best of circumstances.