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> sure, making the government smaller is basically the same as putting the government in control of everything.

Come on. A "hostile takeover and dismantling of our democracy" is completely orthogonal to the size of government, before or after the takeover.



How do you clean up a corrupt organization?


It's probably best to start by not appointing a serial liar, convicted felon and conman to head it.

But if for some insane reason you do, you probably want to keep him and his cronies accountable to the law of the land. The conduct expected from someone with that history should be unimpeachable.

Instead, what we got is the conduct of someone who is unimpeachable. None of the rules apply to him or his friends, and neither do any of the checks and balances.


He's a rapist too, isn't he?


IANAL, but if you're asking for a technically-correct answer, it depends on which place's laws you're using for the statement.

If the crime can be done with hands and objects, yes.

If the crime requires an actual phallus, no. (It'd still be something else, like sexual assault.)


He literally bragged about it before he was elected the first time.

I know we live in chaotic times and all but "grab them by the pussy" without clear consent is, in fact, sexual assault, no matter how much of a celebrity you are.

And there's a long trail of credible accusations against him ranging from various forms of sexual assault to unequivocal rape:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct...


Bernie Sanders has been trying to tell you this since I can count.

Corruption is fought by cutting off external, financial influence and lobbying and by putting the voters front and center.

It is however _not_ fought by firing and going after dissents, pardoning violent extremists, stepping over the separation of power.


By making it more transparent


> How do you clean up a corrupt organization?

1) The US government isn't "corrupt." It might be inefficient, it might be bloated, but it isn't generally corrupt.

2) You definitely don't try "clean up corruption" by out-doing it in corruption and lawlessness.


Surely not by appointing other oligarch and cronies at high position of said organization.




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