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Episode 310: The Ratchet Effect and Civil Disagreement (fixed)

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How Much Has Political Corruption Changed Over Time?

CNN's John Sutter answers a question about political corruption. He says he doesn't think it has changed much over the years, but things are better now than in the past. We've ended up at a place where we're all so much richer by definition that it's just less important to be corrupt,. Now it's a matter of being corrupt in order to really rake it in over everybody else. "I'm not Pollyanna Schinoff to say that things are great"

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