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California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies
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I can understand to not see India as a real democracy right now but not in the context of framing the USA as the poster child of how democracy fails. In that instance India is far larger still.
India is still holding remnants of feudalism since their independence, which can be seen in certain areas and way of thinking throughout India. India is also a far, far poorer country than USA, per capita especially, there's no competition.
Poorer countries are easier to corrupt and India will find it very hard to dig itself out of the hole it's in without outside interference and a lot of prosecutions.
But, corruption exists in (I would argue) every democratic country. They make up stats and skew them in their own favour in an attempt to hide it, but the people on the street aren't blind to what is happening and are very much aware of the corruption regardless of any statistics.
Trump has just taken a highlighter to everything and lit it up for those that haven't seen or didn't believe the extent it was happening.
In that sense (and I'm pretty sure it's the only sense), Trump is actually doing something good.