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President Trump is showing us why concentrated power is so dangerous (lemmy.world)
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As you can all see, power can easily corrupt anyone.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Power can corrupt, but Americans took corrupt and gave it the power. Again.

[–] Xbeam@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Yup. Trump wasn't corrupted by power. He was corrupt before the power.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps there was something corrupt about how the corrupt came to power?

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Corruption is a flat circle.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

There’s an obscure reference.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Power corrupts. Always. Every time. That's the basic idea behind democracy. You only get power for a limited time and you're bound by law and held accountable for breaking it. That's why besides free and fair elections the other pillars of democracy are rule of law and the separation of powers. Right now we can see in the US what happens when these principles are overturned.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Power corrupts. Always. Every time.

A baseless truism doesn't become more credible the more you repeat it.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Can you name any example of a person that has had unchecked power for an extended period of time that didn't end badly?

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

'Murican efficiency bitch!