
the reason you get your guns back on the left is because leftists understand that voting only gets you so far. if the system is designed to benefit those who do insider trading and take bribes, then someone who doesn’t do those things isn’t going to make it far. you can elect people who say they won’t take bribes, but at the end of the day politics is a career, not a service. even if they produce a bill banning lobbying, those who are being lobbied will obviously vote against it.
tell me how the sanctions and embargo’s the united states placed on those states didn’t cripple their economy and prevent them from progressing faster. before cuba’s literacy campaign, illiteracy in urban areas was at 11% and rural at 41.7%. by 1962, illiteracy was down to 4%, trumping even states like louisiana at 6.2%.