Why Today’s Corruption in the United States Is Worse than Ever Before

At left  is the essential tragedy of American politics of the last ten years.

But were our citizens’ dealings with the U.S. governments ever honest, at any real level? Of course not.

Consider the robber barons of the late 19th Century, or Warren Harding and Teapot Dome in the 1920s, or what the U.S. government has done to “protect its interests” by wiping out indigenous populations all over the entire Western Hemisphere.

Yet it didn’t change the planet too much if, 100 years ago, the wealthiest of us bribed our leaders to become that much richer.  There was a limit past which the effects of this criminality could not pass.

Now those limits have been removed.  Today’s corruption means spewing climate changing gases into our atmosphere, gasses that our scientists assure us are baking our planet and hastening the end of life on this planet.