2026-09-22 20:01 UTC
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@ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2026-09-22 22:29
No, they really are NOT all corrupt. Take, for example, Elizabeth Warren, the founder of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; or Ron Wyden, who has spent months chasing down Epstein’s money trail; or Sheldon Whitehouse, who has also worked hard on Epstein-related corruption; or Bernie Sanders who, if memory serves, doesn’t even take corporate cash at all. The list of good to great ones is actually pretty long; those are just off the top of my head. Some of these folks are literal heroes, and really are doing all they can for their constituents and country. But the ones that are corrupt now outnumber the ones that are not, and it’s up to us as citizens to clean it up somehow: Washington can no longer clean itself. If you let yourself get cynical and call them all corrupt, it’s just a dishonest way of exempting yourself from the fight, calling it all hopeless so you can walk away. Don’t.