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Our government was corrupted the moment the courts accepted the "Corporations are people/ Money is speech" arguments. At that moment, the government stopped representing the needs of ordinary people and only represented the needs of billionaires and their lobbyists.
It's taking a long time to play out but it's going to end badly.
It was corrupted as soon as the country was founded, it was meant to service white slave owning men.
Everything is corrupt and always has been!
Ha! One upped both of you!
Our government was corrupted long before that. Harlow Vs Fitzgerald in 1982 comes to mind as the SCOTUS unintentionally legislated from the bench due to some southern revisionist in 1874.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html
Woodrow "literally wrote Southern Revisionism" Wilson is where I would point my finger at where the corruption actually took root.