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Buck Admits Committee Seats in Congress are Bought
The Poisoned Apple of Democracy and the Sleeping Voters
I never thought that corruption would be admitted to in Congress by a Republican. Ken Buck, outgoing Republican congressman from Colorado, admitted that Congress is corrupt. He said that most Americans don’t know that members of Congress have to buy committee seats. That’s called anti-democracy corruption.
When you don’t define corruption, and let a word hang in the air, then the answer is No, or Yes, or whatever you want it to be. But the word means that something at the core is rotten, some type of poison is in the system’s veins, the patient is dying. Buying a seat on a committee that controls the rules of industries and the funding industries receive is, well, corruption. Whoever thought it would be a Republican and not a Democrat revealing how corruption works in our democracy?
The New York Times asked if Congress is corrupt to these exiting congresspeople. Well, what do you mean corrupt? No one participating constantly in an institution would openly and readily say, “Oh, Yes, we’re corrupt.” Don’t define the meaning and their minds will rejected naturally they were a part of something corrupt. But the honest answer from Buck said otherwise. He was disgusted and spit out the truth.
