“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
The first chart is misleading. For example Texas is ranked number 2 most corrupt there, but it's just because we're a big state. We're in the better 50 percentile on the per capita chart.
Besides, any measurement of corruption that doesn't have DC at the top of the list is clearly flawed.
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