Re: The joy of Democracy

On 10/5/24 02:22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On 4 Oct 2024 23:14:50 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

The US is notorious for perks.

 I would describe your system as “soft corruption”: it seems like, as long
as you cannot directly tie particular dollar campaign contributions to
particular votes, anything less than that is perfectly fine.
 Remember, “innocent until proven guilty” is only supposed to apply to
private citizens going about their private business; those who are given
statutory power over others must prove themselves to be squeaky clean, to
be morally qualified to exercise this power; if there is any reasonable
doubt about this, they must step down.

The way coercive plea bargaining works, "innocent until proven guilty" is not used in the US.