Bribes destroy democracies Democracies have been corrupted by bribes since Athenians took bribes from Persians. From the 1900s, especially in the 1960s-80s, until the fall of the Soviet Union, Communists were the biggest bribers of Western “Democracies”. They subverted Congresses, Parliaments, and the state-run media. When bribe-takers could no longer get money from Communists, they […]
