15 Ways Bill Clinton’s White House Failed America and the World

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75. Selling out is its own sin, though.

Prospective buyers get nowhere without willing, even eager, sellers.

It says it all when someone spends a lifetime supposedly in public service, leaves office supposedly deep in debt, yet raises funds for a Presidential library AND still ends up with a personal reportable fortune of over 110 million dollars only 8 years later.

After many years in public service, the most money Sanders made was selling his filibuster in book form. And the filibuster is a public record anyway. I think people just wanted to support him by buying the book.

The job of big business is, essentially, greed, aka, "getting further ahead" if you are an individual within the organization and maximizing profits for stockholders. The job of a lobbyist is to get government to help those greedy individuals within business. The job of an elected official is to serve the public as a whole. So, only one of the three is a betrayer, as shown by the legislation and rules that define corruption by "public" officials so very narrowly.

Moreover, when we shift the blame, or any part of it, to people who are only fulfilling their well known job descriptions, we not only blur the lines, but we also disempower ourselves. I don't know about you, but I don't own 5% of any large corporation, that being the minimum that the law says is a controlling share. Therefor, I don't get fire directors or officers of any big business (or of associations of small businesses). The only ones I can even hope to influence are elected officials. Coincidentally, they are also the only betrayers of their job descriptions.

Don't blame the bear (or the bull) for shitting in the woods. Blame the one who bullshit you into voting for him or her.


That's how I see it.