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Podcast: Macroaggressions
Episode: #68: Crony Capitalism: An American Tradition
Description: People like to talk about the “American Way” of doing things as if it is always better and more evolved. Sometimes the American way of doing things is just an improvement on the traditional way that things have been done of the centuries.
Politicians in the United States act is if bribery and scamming is limited to banana republics and authoritarian regimes, but America has improved upon the old method of filling a bag with money in order to motivate a politician to vote a particular way.
These days, after a long run in Washington D.C. a...