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Can you think of any politician who wasn’t corrupt?

I have only heard of the positive side of JFK and I don’t remember any scandals other than his brother Teddy’s Chappaquidik (if that is how you spell it) that I read about a few months ago.

Obviously we had Mussolini and then Berlusconi, and countless less than stellar players in between.

Johnson taped everything, so did tricky Dickie. Reagan was shot, I don’t know much about that story. Cigar smoking Bill, the two Bushes and weapons of mass destruction. Obama?

In France, where do we start! Germany 🇩🇪 Willy Brandt? Vaclav Havel? Solidarity in Poland. 🇵🇱 Russia? Oh what a can of worms!
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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
Corruption has quite a specific legal meaning - the misuse of publuc office for personal gain - which gets forgotten today because people use the term so frequently to describe politicians they disagree with or find unethical. So Berlusconi and Sarkozy - definitely corrupt - but Mussolini less certainly so.

Look behind the big names to thousands of backbenchers and local.politicians who do a decent day's work unobtrusively in the background (and don't get noticed as a result). Plenty to be getting on with.