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The System Isn’t Broken.

It’s Rigged.

This is how it works.

The Three-Step Cycle of Corruption

Step 1: Capture the System

The cycle begins with unlimited corporate money flooding elections to install friendly politicians, while strategically placed judges ensure the courts favor elite interests.

Step 2: Write the Rules

Once in power, these politicians work with lobbyists in a "revolving door" system to write laws that create tax loopholes, deregulation, and anti-worker policies that benefit their wealthy donors.

Step 3: Manufacture Consent

To prevent revolt, corporate-owned media and politicians amplify divisive cultural issues, keeping the public distracted and fighting each other while the economic exploitation continues.

How This Cycle Corrupts Every Sector

Military

Endless wars mean endless profits, but never for the soldiers fighting them. Fear is weaponized to ensure your tax dollars buy destruction, not security.

Healthcare

Just well enough to clock in, just sick enough to stay dependent. Health isn’t profitable; illness is.

Finance

When they gamble, you lose—and when they lose, you pay. Wealth stays private; losses become public.

Prisons

Mass incarceration fills private pockets, not public safety. Repeat customers mean steady profits and rehabilitation ruins the business model.

Energy

The profits are theirs; the environmental costs are yours. They’ll only go green when the cash flows greener.

Technology

Your data fuels their monopoly and regulation’s nowhere to be found. With AI, the budget bill prevents regulation for 10 years.

Agribusiness

When mega-mergers control your plate, profits come first and safety later—if at all. Immigration crackdowns conveniently ignore the workers they exploit.

Real Estate

Homes turned into assets leaves families renting their dreams from the ultra-rich. Regulations designed for investors, not homeowners.

Education

An informed public is harder to fool. It is no wonder they starve schools and silence teachers. Ignorance is lucrative; education is costly—to them.

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