Originally posted by Oso
It has often been said of the PRI that they stayed in power 72 years by establishing a system of "instutionalized corruption". That is, rather than
the random corruption of dishonest individuals, there was (is) a structured, organized hierarchy in which bribery is necessary to obtain positions in
which bribery is demanded in exchange for services and tribute, a percentage of the bribes, is passed upwards. This is, indeed, a system. It is not
logical to assume such a system could be "chosen" by the people forced to pay the bribes. They simply became resigned to it , for the most part,
because it was "the system" and there seemed to be no practical alternative. Fox was supposed to change that. He may have tried, but with a
"congress" still largely controlled by the PRI, his success has been very limited. |