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A Small Change Won't Do It
Corruption and rot will require a long recovery and major changes
mister mix
June 18, 2025
This is Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum boarding a flight in Mexico City for her trip to the G7 summit in Canada. I bet it made those flight attendants’ day.
Claudia flies commercial because AMLO sold the 787 that the Mexican Government had purchased for the former President. She wears a simple wardrobe with not a lot of jewelry. She has one daughter from her first marriage, who is pursuing her own career and life with her husband in LA, completely unrelated to Mexican politics. She also has a stepson who’s an artist. Her second husband is a financial analyst with the Bank of Mexico. As far as I can tell, none of her family has benefitted in any substantial way from her rise to high office.
In other words, she is, as far as possible, projecting an image that is the opposite of corrupt in a country attempting to recover from massive corruption.
Is this all political theater? Of course, Jesus Christ, that’s how it works!
If we are lucky, Democrats, or the party that rises from the ashes of the ruin of the Democratic Party, will have leaders who embrace — and live — an anti-corruption agenda. Their kids won’t be lobbyists. They won’t have bullshit book deals. They’ll stay off of private jets. They won’t go to donorfests. Small donor funding will be the norm, not just more money to add on to what billionaires give them.
This may sound like a far-off fantasy, but at least I’m not saying that Republicans will somehow come to their senses and become less corrupt. But the first step is to acknowledge that we have a problem, and here’s some major evidence:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would regulate a form of cryptocurrency known as stablecoins, the first of what the industry hopes will be a wave of bills to bolster its legitimacy and reassure consumers.
The fast-moving legislation, which passed by a 68-30 vote and will be sent to the House for potential revisions, comes on the heels of a 2024 campaign cycle in which the crypto industry ranked among the top political spenders in the country, underscoring its growing influence in Washington and beyond.
Eighteen Democratic senators crossed the aisle to vote for the legislation on Tuesday, siding with the Republican majority in the 53-47 Senate. Republican Sens. Josh Hawley and Rand Paul were the only members of their party to oppose the measure.
It was the second major bipartisan bill to advance through the Senate this year, following the Laken Riley Act on immigration enforcement in January.
I’m at the point where I think any sort of real recovery from the rot might not happen in my lifetime.
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