- Combating corruption is a key pillar of defending American democracy, as highlighted in the Brookings Democracy Playbook 2025. If unchecked, corruption threatens the U.S. economy, security, and democracy.
- The new administration has moved quickly to undermine key U.S. anti-corruption protections and guardrails across government.
- Businesses, policymakers, civil society, media, and citizens have tools to defend against a potentially devastating wave of corruption and other threats to democratic governance.
corruption threat? horseshit
no threat of corruption because it has already been here controlling BOTH parties
“both sides!!!” is such a lame take. You don’t see any difference between the Democratic and Republican parties?
Who built the anti-corruption measures Trump is currently dismantling?
Exactly. The Democrats have their own issues, but there is a difference between a candle and a burning house and the difference does matter.
So why do Democrats continue to act in the interests of their rich doners instead of their electorate?
People will stop saying both sides when one stops taking dirty money
took sold out lame ducks like the Democrats to help usher in the Nazis
They are identical according to the Threshold Perspective, by virtue of mapped properties.
The Threshold Perspective assigns political parties into White/Bright (白) and Black/Dark (黒) polarities. The Democrats’ and Republicans’ considerable favor for the individual causes them to fail one of the requirements for White polarity assignment. They must therefore both be assigned to Black polarity, and are thus, identical in that mapped respect.
Literal black and white thinking
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So through a very narrow lens?
It’s the lens I value. I very much desire to bring a 白-polairty party into power.
That’s fine, but “Not 白” is objectively not “Equal” and having a world view that ignores this is incredibly ignorant. It’s absolutely within your rights to have it, though.
Naturally. 白 and 黒 parties cannot coexist since their ideologies directly oppose the other. If 白 is to win, 黒 must go. If you knew first-hand how stable 白 parties are over 黒 parties like the Democrats and Republicans, you would agree that 白 is the better long term option.
I don’t disagree with you, but you’re distilling a very complex landscape into a binary. Essentially “Good” and “Bad.”
Yes, both main parties in the US are bad, but that kind of thinking gets fascists elected. They are -not- the same because the reality of the situation is not binary.
Lets change 白 and 黒 to Good and Bad, and re-read your argument:
It’s a logically sound point, I just don’t see what you’re trying to say with it. We don’t have any 白 parties to choose from, but one of the two 黒 parties is at least keeping a facade of decency. That’s exploitable until we can get a 白 party elected.
The problem in the US is that most of us can’t be inconvenienced enough to actually educate ourselves, while we blame the government for not educating our children.
I will die of old age before a 白 party appears, if I cooperate with the 黒 parties. And the 白 and the 黒 hate each other; the 黒 will never willingly let the 白 take power. It doesn’t matter how nice the 黒 parties are; they HATE the 白 parties for ideological reasons. There’s no way around this - they truly are an existential threat to the other.
Therefore, the only real way to get a 白 party to take power is to overthrow the 黒 parties and install a 白 party. Or, wait until the 黒 parties are sufficiently weakened from infighting and civil war to allow a 白 party to take over. I see no scenario where the 白 can peacefully take power in a 黒-dominated country. Or vice versa.
And the education issue is precisely why it is imperative the 白 take power. Their political system desires to give people a proper education for the purpose of societal stability. The 黒 are far too fickle with education.