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[–] 2 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

Oh yeah, no problem! Sorry I don't have a webcam or anything, so it'll have to be a textual demonstration.

Web searches the phrase "forms of political corruption"

Clicks most relevant link, probably Wikipedia

Reads the webpage, processes the words thereon

Notices how people in politics committing fraud, graft, influence peddling, bribery & kickbacks, regulatory & state capture, nepotism, patronage, and cronyism (see, I knew more applied) would very reasonably cause their constituents to have complaints like "private minority interests have major political parties in their pockets" and "lots of our politicians have been in their positions of power for an unreasonable amount of time" and "you can't get a good job or government contract or research grant or get a pothole filled unless you 'know somebody'"

Demonstration complete, now it's your turn! Let me know if you need to "see" any of that again, I can always s l o w i t d o w n for ya ;)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Notices how [corrupt] people [...] would very reasonably cause their constituents to have complaints like [...]

    Thanks. Sounds like you're saying the issues I mentioned could be signs of corruption, but are not corruption in themselves? Which is true for sure, but they don't necessarily imply corruption.

    And in this particular case, they get scrutinized and very little actual corruption is found.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Not signs of, examples of. Like you say, not every case of these issues is corruption, but plenty (worldwide) are. And yeah, I'm not arguing about the actual statistics in Denmark, I've no idea and you've presented no actual data. Which is fine, I probably wouldn't read it anyway, my Danish is more than rusty. You're welcome.

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