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Today, I'm focusing on public sector corruption, which the private sector also participates in.
It was kind of a nasty way to get maturation, but we got it, because we all understood it, and for the first time that I could remember, there were mass protests against this corruption.
Now, the previous two examples I gave were to do with construction sector corruption, okay?
It's also the single largest example of public corruption according to this equation.
Where you have an expenditure of public money and it is without accountability and it's without transparency, it will always be equal to corruption, whether you're in Russia or Nigeria or Alaska, it will always be equal to corruption, and that is what we are dealing with here.
We had the journalist [Heather] Brooke speaking about her battle against government corruption, and she introduced me to this website, Alaveteli.com.
It's corruption.
It's 150,000 millennials all across Uganda, young people armed with 2G phones, an SMS social network exposing government corruption and demanding to know what's in the budget and how their money is being spent.
And finally, point number three: Whatever one wants to say about Lesterland, against the background of its history, its traditions, in our land, in USA-land, Lesterland is a corruption, a corruption.
Now, by corruption I don't mean brown paper bag cash secreted among members of Congress.
I don't mean Rod Blagojevich sense of corruption.
The corruption I'm talking about is perfectly legal.
It's a corruption relative to the framers' baseline for this republic.
This is a corruption.
Now, there's good news and bad news about this corruption.
One bit of good news is that it's bipartisan, equal-opportunity corruption.
It's a pathological, democracy-destroying corruption, because in any system where the members are dependent upon the tiniest fraction of us for their election, that means the tiniest number of us, the tiniest, tiniest number of us, can block reform.
These are the manageable problems, so you ignore — (Laughter) (Applause) — so you ignore this corruption.
But we cannot ignore this corruption anymore.
And not works for the left or the right, but works for the left and the right, the citizens of the left and right, because there is no sensible reform possible until we end this corruption.
Each of these would fix this corruption by spreading out the influence of funders to all of us.
My kind of journalism might not fit in other continents or other countries, but I can tell you, it works in my part of the continent of Africa, because usually, when people talk about corruption, they ask, "Where is the evidence?
Our democracies are undermined by the growing inequality and the growing concentration of power and wealth, lobbies, corruption, the speed of the markets or simply the fact that we sometimes fear an impending disaster, have constrained our democracies, and they have constrained our capacity to imagine and actually use the potential, your potential, in finding solutions.
There are crisis maps, election maps, corruption maps, and even environmental monitoring crowd maps.
The second assumption is that in a one-party state, power gets concentrated in the hands of the few, and bad governance and corruption follow.
Indeed, corruption is a big problem, but let's first look at the larger context.
On the political front, the worst problem is corruption.
Corruption is widespread and undermines the system and its moral legitimacy.
They say that corruption is the result of the one-party system, and therefore, in order to cure it, you have to do away with the entire system.
So if election is the panacea for corruption, how come these countries can't fix it?
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