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Are Democrats more corrupt than Republicans?

Are Democrats more corrupt than Republicans?

  • Im a right leaning American, yes.

    Votes: 8 20.5%
  • Im a left leaning American, yes.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Im not American, yes.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Im a right leaning American, no.

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • Im a left leaning American, no.

    Votes: 8 20.5%
  • Im not American, no.

    Votes: 2 5.1%
  • Im a right leaning American, they are exactly the same as Republicans.

    Votes: 8 20.5%
  • Im a left leaning American, they are exactly the same as Republicans.

    Votes: 9 23.1%
  • Im not American, they are exactly the same as Republicans.

    Votes: 3 7.7%

  • Total voters
    39

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Voter fraud, bribes, witness tampering, pleading the 5th, extortion, blackmail, targeting of individuals over political beliefs, infidelity...we all know the crimes.

THE QUESTION IS NOT IF BOTH SIDES COMMIT THESE CORRUPT ACTS, BUT WHO DOES IT MORE? ARE DEMS MORE CORRUPT?

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Not sure. To accurately answer one would have to put forth a great deal of effort to research corruption on both the national, state and local levels. Simply pointing to politicians with name recognition alone won't cut it.
 
I suppose you could go add up all the scandals from the past few decades and see which party has more, but my impression isn't that one party is more moral than the other. If I had to guess I'd say it's probably about even.
 
Not sure. To accurately answer one would have to put forth a great deal of effort to research corruption on both the national, state and local levels. Simply pointing to politicians with name recognition alone won't cut it.

You can somehow do the research or give your opinion/impression. This is about public opinion.
 
I think it's a tie to be honest. Both serve corporate interests only, not those of the general populace. Both happen to have endorsed some of the most untrustworthy and slimy characters you're likely to find. Both are different sides of the same corrupted coin the country keeps flipping each election, expecting something different.
 
Voter fraud, bribes, witness tampering, pleading the 5th, extortion, blackmail, targeting of individuals over political beliefs, infidelity...we all know the crimes.

THE QUESTION IS NOT IF BOTH SIDES COMMIT THESE CORRUPT ACTS, BUT WHO DOES IT MORE? ARE DEMS MORE CORRUPT?

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Since both parties will do whatever it takes to win elections, trying to figure out which party is more corrupt is like trying to figure out who is the worst murderer, the one who killed a 100 people or the one who only killed 99. Flipping a coin is probably the best way to determine your answer.
 
Not sure. To accurately answer one would have to put forth a great deal of effort to research corruption on both the national, state and local levels. Simply pointing to politicians with name recognition alone won't cut it.

This. Without that, any answer is just a guess.
 
You can somehow do the research or give your opinion/impression. This is about public opinion.

Public opinion is different than facts. Some people prefer facts.
 
Since both parties will do whatever it takes to win elections, trying to figure out which party is more corrupt is like trying to figure out who is the worst murderer, the one who killed a 100 people or the one who only killed 99. Flipping a coin is probably the best way to determine your answer.

I dont think so. One side see's the other as evil. One side is held to a higher standard. We may disagree on the endgame, but the ways these different strategies manifest will likely (and are) different.
 
Heres a fact, corruption and being reported/convicted of corruption are two different things. This is a poll, meaning I am asking for opinion. See how this works?

And the answer is that without facts, it is just guesses, which is worthless.
 
I love reading crime statistics.

A few years back I read a 190 page big report on mafia involvement in Italian politics. From voter fraud, diverting public money, black mailing officials, rackerteering, bribery and even murder of non-cooperative Italian politicians.

The result, of all the governments that Italy had ever had, from conservative to very liberal to liberterian and whatever, more that 50 governments since 1945. All of them had gotten their hands dirty together with the Italian mob.

There was only one Italian government that didnt. and that was the social democratic government that ran on cracking down hard on the mob in the 1990s. (Who are seen as heros in Italy since they managed to give the biggest blow to the mob in the 20th century and many public officials were murderd doing that work)

Which doesnt suggest that the center left is mob free in Italy, since previous center left governments in Italy had also goten their hands dirty.

Crime simply doesnt know ideology, crime itself is the embodiement of oppertunism. People almoust never commit crimes because of their beliefs, but because they think they can get away with it.

Which is clearly shown by a different statistic I read on crime in politics. Which showed that politicaly releated crimes like corruption are most likely to occure in party strongholds.

A republican official is more likely to commit a crime in Texas and a democratic official is more likely to commit a crime in California.

Because they think that they can get away with it.
 
I would say both are equally dirty.
 
On an individual basis, either side could have more corrupt individuals at a given time.

Ideologically, Leftism is morally, intellectually and humanly corrupt, deceitful and evil. It is the greatest danger to the advancement and longterm survival of the species.
 
On an individual basis, either side could have more corrupt individuals at a given time.

Right wing ideology is morally, intellectually and humanly corrupt, deceitful and evil. It is the greatest danger to the advancement and longterm survival of the species.

Corrected for accuracy.

Now that we have dispensed with the partisan hackery, we can move on.
 
There will always be corruption on both sides. But it's not really the parties that are corrupt. It the system that allows corruption. It's rigged.
 
On an individual basis, either side could have more corrupt individuals at a given time.

Ideologically, Leftism is morally, intellectually and humanly corrupt, deceitful and evil. It is the greatest danger to the advancement and longterm survival of the species.

What a crock.
 
What a crock.

Really? Want to compare achievements, standards of living or technological advancements of leftist leaning countries to others? Oh, wait, there are no others left, the us has turned leftist and is failing.
 
Really? Want to compare achievements, standards of living or technological advancements of leftist leaning countries to others? Oh, wait, there are no others left, the us has turned leftist and is failing.

Every single liberal democracy in the West today is "leftist leaning" in an historical sense. They're also far more successful than the monarchic systems they superseded.
 
Really? Want to compare achievements, standards of living or technological advancements of leftist leaning countries to others? Oh, wait, there are no others left, the us has turned leftist and is failing.

Ah. Someone who is so black and white that he believes that only communism or socialism are left leaning. Well, since we've never actually seen a pure communist or socialist government (they all become authoritarian, a right wing ideology) your premise about their failure is correct, but about them being left leaning is not.
 
I think both parties are tied for that award.
 
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