It’s unwise to expect that the moral center of gravity of politicians and bureaucrats will be any more elevated than that of the so-called “man in the street” — the population from which the sample is drawn. Loose morals and looser money are the playground of organized crime. And in a society where narcissism has been sold as moral true north, corruption is assured. Vast, stomach-churning corruption.
The real solution, sadly still tens or hundreds of generations away, is a general moral and spiritual quickening.
In the meantime, it would seem that the best way to mitigate the potential damage of centralized corruption is radical decentralization of government. The framers of the US Constitution saw this, but their ideas have been white-anted over two centuries. It’s time to get back to constitutional basics and return power to the people, who also need to get their faces out of their phones and start taking civic responsibility seriously.
It’s unwise to expect that the moral center of gravity of politicians and bureaucrats will be any more elevated than that of the so-called “man in the street” — the population from which the sample is drawn. Loose morals and looser money are the playground of organized crime. And in a society where narcissism has been sold as moral true north, corruption is assured. Vast, stomach-churning corruption.
The real solution, sadly still tens or hundreds of generations away, is a general moral and spiritual quickening.
In the meantime, it would seem that the best way to mitigate the potential damage of centralized corruption is radical decentralization of government. The framers of the US Constitution saw this, but their ideas have been white-anted over two centuries. It’s time to get back to constitutional basics and return power to the people, who also need to get their faces out of their phones and start taking civic responsibility seriously.
It will take a total blackout to pull people away from their phones. I totally agree though.
Couldn't say the last paragraph any better.
Kudos
I definitely agree with you! You might like reading Attorney Cox's Substack. She fights for our constitutional rights. She recently wrote a Substack on Hunter Biden too: https://open.substack.com/pub/attorneycox/p/not-all-pardons-are-alike?r=2c9g6j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web