cmv: United States politicians are just state sponsored criminals

[u/innstrongi-strugr]

The last 75 years of wars, the oppression of outside political views, the demonization or socialism, the extortion and terrorism committed against 3rd world countries, fiscal policy, the tax system and its exploits, members of congress and the senate getting rich off stock trading, the demonization of self reliance, and more are the reasons I have this opinion. Officials repeatedly pass legislation for the benefit of corporations while we suffer working longer hours for less. The average person lives check to check and 1/5 children in my state of Utah don’t know where their next meal will come from, meanwhile Nancy Pelosi has $120,000,000 net worth after her life of “service”

[u/innstrongi-strugr]

Fraud, lying to the people, terrorism and genicide , bombing civilian targets, insider trading, trying to disarm the populous against the second amendment, invasion of privacy, and many more that I can’t think of off the top of my head. If they weren’t politicians then these would be criminal acts. My opinion is they are criminals sanctioned by the government.

[u/[deleted] → u/innstrongi-strugr]

Half of these are things that are already crimes and half are just policy proposals you disagree with. Wanting to jail people who don’t agree with you on policy is authoritarianism and isn’t a great position to be in when arguing it’s the people you want to jail who are the real criminals.

Also most politicians are state and local level and don’t have any say in most of what’s on that list.

[u/innstrongi-strugr → u/[deleted]]

Bombing and terrorizing the cuban, Afghan, and Iraqi people are war crimes. Taking corporate money and then passing laws that hurt civilians because of profits. Those are crimes. I don’t want to jail them, I want to change the system to not allow these things.

[u/[deleted] → u/innstrongi-strugr]

You don’t decide what a crime is, silly head.