Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg
“Modern democracies have a very distinct engine driving corruption within them, and it’s not what you’d expect. There are many drivers of government corruption, of course, but this one empowers corruption in ways that others do not and cannot. Democracies and democratic republics, especially now, involve professional politicians. And politicians, to put it very directly, are the winners of popularity contests. In fact, if we’re to be honest about it, modern elections might best be described as a type of beauty pageant, or a ‘popularity pageant.'” (10/01/25)
https://thefindings.substack.com/p/the-engine-of-corruption-in-democracies