Leftists, for lack of better word, often call crony capitalism "late capitalism" or "late state capitalism" https://www.quora.com/Is-crony-capitalism-just-late-capitalism implying that it is the end result of capitalism given a long enough timeline. Notion which "rightwingers" often vehemently discard as "It's not real capitalism. It's a violation of capitalism". And evidently, leftists often end up retorting with a "so we can agree that all attempts at communism weren't real communism then..." Both are partially right and wrong at the same time, IMO You have human nature, front and center, and the best you can do with that, is to take it in consideration for what it is, and plan stuffs accordingly We could argue all day long that this system is less evil than this one, or this one better than this one Salvation isn't in the system, nor in the government or even institutions, widespread corruption overcomes any given system, guaranteed Politicians, government employees, business men, ec... Don't pop out of another parallel dimension, for the vast majority they're born and raised in the very country they are looting day in day out They are self serving pricks and "we" manufacture them It's intent the problem, it's much more of a moral problem than anything else in the end, at collective and individual level ... A couple of years ago I didn't understand what christians meant with "salvation is in christ" Today, the more I dig the more I think I get what they meant by that