Joe DiStefano, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and News-Journal alumnus, has written a piece so damning of Joe Biden’s soft corruption that it can’t help but damn our entire state government philosophy in the process.
This is what Democrats, as opposed to progressives who believe in good government regardless of party, have persistently overlooked — people voted for Trump because they are fed up with legalized corruption, which is what it is when relatives of elected officials, or ex-officials themselves, go into the lobbying racket. The common folk might be fooled by demagogues, but they wouldn’t have been susceptible to Trump if Democrats didn’t prance around saying things like Biden “did nothing wrong” in Ukraine.
Bullshit. It’s wrong and anyone who isn’t invested in the Democratic Party knows it. Upton Sinclair said it best in his quixotic quest for the California governorship: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”