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I have to constantly remind the white supremacists in my country (South Africa) that the only reason the US isn't ranked higher than South Africa in those silly "corruption indexes" rich people's media loves so much is because the stuff that gets called corruption over here is perfectly legal in the US.
In South Africa, pigs stealing your stuff is thoroughly illegal - not that this stops SA pigs, of course - while it's been perfectly legalized in the US.
And it can't be corrupt if it's perfectly legal, right?
Well that is how they made bribery legal as long as you use PACs.
Yeah corruption is corruption, be it the US government or the SA Government. Problem in both is how it becomes entrenched and keeping themselves elected through blind following and populists rhetoric. Also the ANC needs the white supremacist, their enemy or WMC/snowball if we are talking Orwellian, to distract from their base while buying their votes with t-shirts.
At least here in SA our courts have not yet been politicised too much, even though some politicians try, cough cough Zuma cough. At least certain institutions have stood their ground to government interference, like the courts or reserve bank for example.