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Well, see, there's your problem right there. There is a distinction between what politics means and how it gets corrupted.

Like, in ancient Rome they made a decree that anyone hitting someone has to pay a $50 fine on the spot (or the fucking correlate amount of Sestertians), and one rich fuck went around in his sedan slapping people in the streets and have his posse pay the victim and then move on to the next one.

That's hardly "politics"- that's abuse and loopholing the law.

There is such a thing as just law, just politics, democracy and basic fucking human decency, and we can have it.

But rich fucks decided, what if we use our money to corrupt politics, so we can slap people in the face with impunity?

That's the problem. Money. Not politics itself.