Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
A legislator’s pension contributions should be based on salary, benefits, kickbacks and bribes
And eventually getting a nice cushy lobbyist or consulting job to boot.
Sociologist Diane Vaughn coined the term ‘normalization of deviance’ to describe a cultural drift in which circumstances classified as “not okay” are slowly reclassified as “okay.” In my opinion, Vaughn’s premise is applicable to the Illiinois legislatures cognitive dissonance. Social normalization of deviance means that people within the organization become so much accustomed to a deviant behavior that they don’t consider it as deviant, despite the fact that they far exceed their own rules for their’s and others elementary safety. It is a complex process with some kind of organizational acceptance. The people outside see the situation as deviant whereas… Read more »