{"id":54646,"date":"2016-11-03T10:10:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54646"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:10:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:10:45","slug":"hillary-is-the-perfection-of-a-corrupt-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54646","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Is The Perfection Of A Corrupt System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by Charles Hugh-Smith<br \/>\nOfTwoMinds blog<\/p>\n<p><em>Exposing the Clintons&#8217; perfection of a corrupt political system won&#8217;t change the conditions and incentives that created the Clintons&#8217; harvester of corruption.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s set aside Hillary Clinton as an individual and consider her as the perfection of a corrupt political system.<\/strong> As I noted yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oftwominds.com\/blognov16\/politics-dead11-16.html\" target=\"resource\"> Politics As Usual Is Dead<\/a>, and Hillary Clinton is the ultimate product of the political system that is disintegrating before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The corruption of pay-to-play and the commingling of public and private influence is not the failing of an individual&#8211;it is the logical conclusion of a thoroughly corrupt political system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given the incentives built into <em>politics as usual<\/em>, public\/private pay-to-play doesn&#8217;t just make sense&#8211;it is <em>the only possible maximization of the political system<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Cobble together a multi-million dollar private foundation, millions of dollars in speaking fees from big-money contributors, conflicts of interest, the secrecy of private email servers, pay-to-play schemes and corrupted loyalists planted in the Department of Justice, and the inevitable result is a <em>politics as usual<\/em> money-harvesting machine that lays waste to the nation, supporters and critics alike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All the Clintons did is assemble the parts more effectively than anyone else.<\/strong> Now that the machine has scooped up hundreds of millions of dollars in &#8220;contributions&#8221; and other loot, vested interests and corrupted loyalists within the federal government will do anything to protect the machine and its vast flow of funds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wide\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oftwominds.com\/photos2016\/clinton-foundation2.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The nation&#8217;s political system needs a thorough cleaning from top to bottom.<\/strong> Exposing the Clintons&#8217; perfection of <em>politics as usual<\/em> won&#8217;t change the conditions and incentives that created the Clintons&#8217; harvester of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>That will require rooting out the incentives that made the Clintons&#8217; perfection of corruption both logical and inevitable.<\/p>\n<p><i>___<br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2016\/11\/hillary-is-perfection-of-corrupt-system.html\">http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2016\/11\/hillary-is-perfection-of-corrupt-system.html<\/a><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}