Originally Posted by Botnst

The first portion in which you energetically, if haphazardly allege ill-defined instances that may or may not constitute bribery I'll ignore until it assumes some coherency.

Taking money through threat of violence is extortion, not theft. Rally. But do recall, it is constitutional and legal. If your argument is a matter of kind and magnitude, I'm with you. If it's on principle, we're on different sides. Kidnapping is a different thing.

If we cannot agree on the primacy of the foundational document; the common ground of the cultural and political nation we have become; then all else will fail.

I wish you well.