Welcome. To address the main question of the thread, for myself it was not a particular specific event, though many have contributed to the totality of the belief of corruption.
Human nature being what it is, and power corrupting (with more power bringing more corruption), as soon as you start to notice crooked happenings in your local area with police, or councils, or bribes, or crooks able to operate without interference due to paying off people to look the other way.. and extrapolating out. If local corruption is a thing, why would state, federal or national corruption be any different?
The failing of every major political initiative, the wasting and theft of every single tax dollar, the breaking of every single campaign promise, the coordinated stage-managed press pool that arent real journalists with real questions but essentially are actors playing a part, the political apparatchiks playing the role of an independent neutral observer giving some advice or other on a TV interview that just so happens to cast their rival in a bad light.. it is endless. The parade of political and 'connected' people claiming total and utter hatred for the nation and its values... but staying here. For what reason would you stay somewhere you hate, other than to do that place harm?
Unless proven otherwise, my assumption about every figure in politics is that they would die in prison if the truth about them were known & presented for a fair trial in a court. The exceptions to that truth are rare, and all the more wonderful for that scarcity!
Welcome. To address the main question of the thread, for myself it was not a particular specific event, though many have contributed to the totality of the belief of corruption.
Human nature being what it is, and power corrupting (with more power bringing more corruption), as soon as you start to notice crooked happenings in your local area with police, or councils, or bribes, or crooks able to operate without interference due to paying off people to look the other way.. and extrapolating out. If local corruption is a thing, why would state, federal or national corruption be any different?
The failing of every major political initiative, the wasting and theft of every single tax dollar, the breaking of every single campaign promise, the coordinated stage-managed press pool that arent real journalists with real questions but essentially are actors playing a part, the political apparatchiks playing the role of an independent neutral observer giving some advice or other on a TV interview that just so happens to cast their rival in a bad light.. it is endless. The parade of political and 'connected' people claiming total and utter hatred for the nation and its values... but staying here. For what reason would you stay somewhere you hate, other than to do that place harm?
Unless proven otherwise, my assumption about every figure in politics is that they would die in prison if the truth about them were known & presented for a fair trial in a court. The exceptions to that truth are rare, and all the more wonderful for that scarcity!