[bravo22]

You are railing against democracy, voting and election campaigns. You're rightly pointing out flaws in them. The solutions that have been proposed for those flaws are called small government.

The same corruption happens in every other system including socialism but even if that system abolishes money the corruption would be done through power, coercion, and influence.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Again with the false dichotomies. You should get that checked out.

I am not railing against democracy. I am saying democracy is being undermined by certain unchecked aspects of capitalism, specifically in the US. In many European countries, this is much less of a problem because campaign finance is very strictly regulated. And in general the solution employed in Europe has been more financial regulation, not a small state. And it's been highly effective.

And yes, socialist countries can also be corrupt, and definitely have been. I never said otherwise. Saying X about capitalism is not automatically saying !X about socialism.

Similarly, saying that socialism can also harbour corruption is not equivalent to saying capitalism has nothing to do with corruption in capitalist countries.

It's false dichotomies all the way down.

[bravo22]

You are suggesting that capitalism creates wealth and wealth can be used to bribe political leaders correct? What am I missing?