*Corruption is self-reinforcing.

As revenues shrink, rulers raise taxes; higher taxes suffocate the economy; officials extort more to compensate; and the cycle accelerates toward collapse.

*Corruption weakens the state’s ability to defend itself.

When officials steal and citizens lose trust, revenues fall and strength declines. The dynasty becomes vulnerable to external conquest or internal rebellion.

*States begin with integrity and end with corruption.

New dynasties are tough, simple, cohesive. Over generations, rulers distance themselves from the people, taxation rises, and corruption becomes inevitable.

3. Campaign finance necromancy — resuscitate the corpse of genuine electoral choice by banning private donations and introducing full public funding. Until we stop allowing billionaires to buy senators like subscription boxes, democracy remains a retail product.

The End.

2. Transparency by design, not by scandal. Every contract, every lobbying meeting, every revolving-door appointment should be digitally traceable and citizen-auditable in real time. Sunshine is not merely the best disinfectant — it is the only one left.

#corruption

1. A civic re-education. The voter must rediscover that democracy is not a spectator sport. If citizens continue to treat voting as a biennial chore between Netflix binges, then justice will forever serve power, not people.

#anticorruption

I just have to add that RATM and the Sega Genesis Mega Drive are two of my genetic building blocks, they're basically my parents.

It was called the Sega Mega Drive everywhere else in the universe... I believe the Genesis is a religious reference, as it was biblically cool.

One of a kind.