Posted
2:18 PM
by Gene
I think I've said something like this before: Government may be less overtly corrupt than before -- certainly our pols should know better than to wave envelopes full of cash at likely targets -- but so much of the machinery of corruption is now so implacably internalized that it may be at least as corrupt as in the Gilded Age.
This kind of argument that it's not serves con-SER-va-tives because it allows them to rationalize the huge sums spent on the preservation of broadcasters to spew political lies, not to mention the viper's nest of lobbyists. Anything MB2 can endorse is shady by definition.