• EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    In China they have cushy prisons for corrupt politicians. The US needs to begin taking a similar tactic of threatening these people with extreme punishment (in China it’s an automatic death sentence, often commuted to life) and putting them prison.

    China still has less prisoners than the US, even though they’re harsh on political malfeasance and have a population 5 times that of the United States. We would be a more democratic society if the president could be put in prison.

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      15 hours ago

      the problem with this is the result would be trump putting a lot of enemies in prison. Xi is essentially immune to corruption because he is going to call the shots. What your talking about is centralization of power which is the last thing we need.