How does power brings corruption?

Question

Please don't take me to the suggestions that should be done to fight it and also that power doesn't bring corruption.
Only tell me how does it brings corruption?
You can tell me examples along with evidences.

Answer 1

'Might is right' is the old saying. In democracies power is given by statute with some responsibilities and accountability. The more systematized the government, better the chances of it being less corrupt.



But it is we the people who can make the real difference. And especially the people who are in power holding positions.

Answer 2

When the one in power doesn't know what limitations he has, he enacts all sorts of laws that qualify him as a dictator. Usually the corruption comes from a combination of power and the stress that comes with it. For example, King George III and the Parliament of his time had just had a major war against France over Canada. They needed to pay off their debt, but the Parliament members did not want the people they represented to be taxed much more. So to get out of debt, George and Parliament agreed to tax the American colonies. This angered the colonies, because they, unlike the mainland England, did not get represented. They began to protest this exclusive tax.



The response they got was more tax. The Boston Tea Party happened as a result. Since that was a clear rebellion, the mainland English decided to get rid of their opposition, and sent soldiers to be quartered in the colonists' houses. This stirred up even more rebellion... and I'm sure that any American who studied any American history knows what ended up happening. If that did not happen, the Declaration of Independence would not have been drafted, and the world would probably be a lot different.



Another example: The economy was very low, so as a result, the government foolishly inflated their currency. This caused even more economic distress. In all the confusion and yelling at the government, one person spread a message of hope and change. He promised to do many things, and the people believed and loved his propaganda. A while after he was elected, he started blaming his country's current situation on an innocent group of people that was already hated a lot by a few groups. He brainwashed his people to believe that those people were the cause of all their troubles, and as a result, his people supported his actions that nobody would even think of repeating today, except for a few insane murderers. In the end they lost a war and ended up hopelessly divided. If that did not happen, Berlin would not have had a wall separating its East from its West.

Answer 3

It is not true always. If administrator is strong enough the possibility of corruption is very less. Just see the countries like Denmark, where Govt. officials, police have much powers. But they count in near zero corrupted countries.

Answer 4

Have you not heard the saying

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The ego of people with power is sky high. They forget that they are mortals and By destny any time they may lose power

Answer 5

Read the book, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. It is a very good book, not very long and will explain a lot about power and corruption, totalitarianism, and all sorts of things.

Answer 6

it doesnt always have to be that way. corruption is brought about tolerance and ignorance of the common man. if he knows whats the duty of his government he should voice up his discontent and may be over throw the govt if it is not performing well and is corrupt.

Answer 7

Lets look first at it's opposite.



I was a good cop; I risked my life for someone, got stabbed, got shot and got a law suit for 23 millions decided in my FAVOR.



I'm not much on corruption. So, did I keep the money?



As yourself : can honest man can defend himself against gangs of dishonest men, even nations of them, who have more and b in Bangor are better guns than we as citizens can buy, illicit dope, that they do not need to ask if one wants before doping one with unless the police are awake ~ and honest and no morals?



This is the information age. They will know a fellow is getting a large settlement or a lottery winning before he/she can GET IT. And, thus before he can hire a body guard or arrange to be in a safe place they are all around him, planning larceny.



They are, after all, already here. Most police offices are not morally pristine; many cops retire wealthy. Nobody asks questions and even if they do, the corrupt cops are well versed in answering "difficult questions". They've seen drug dealers do it enough.



So, I'm going to be wealthy. I find this out one day.



I'm a former Bangor PD probationary officer who was asked to mind an intersection with my broken legs while a fellow cop took his lunch break (I'd been shot 13 times as a Game Warden's Deputy ~ they gave me a desk job, but I wasn't very good at it, head wounds take a long time to heal ~ if ever). I was deliberately run over by a stoned local hero / lustful mobster (he wanted to impress his psychotic girlfriend).



So I'm feeling a tad alone, I've come back to Bangor because I was warned one of the guys I'd sued was getting drunk and gunning for me.



And that's when a fellow cop approaches. He says the Department is short handed, and he'd like to deputize me, loan me a gun and give me a day babysitting a young woman who is running away from her violent, doper husband. I say how long, he assures me 6 hours tops.



I say sure. I think maybe I can fit in better by going along, and I'll need friends here in Bangor, cause I was police, and my brother was police, and we both got hurt.



Long story short ~ they shoot us, as she turned out to be a red herring who doped me, took my gun and opened the door for the hit man, whom she had been told was there merely to embarrass me. Her reward was to be ~ if they'd been honest ~ that they would forgive the debts she'd incurred to the mob. Instead they shot her too, with a 12 gauge.



Despite being shot with said 12 gauge to the face, I got up, somehow, and blind as a bat and with half a tongue called in the officer down send two ambulances.



Bangor has had allot of "free" money; though not the largest town or being economically successful (there are no industries at all here) this town has "fathered" all the Governors of Maine since before Reagan.



Men with no face in Bangor Maine are called the mentally ill. Fat chance keeping money so labeled.



It's not that all powerful men are corrupt. Old money is often not so very corrupt.



But new money can't often keep it unless they are very clever and expected to be rich and planned for it, cause there are always "little people" who gang up and do plan on taking it from ANY vulnerable person.



Some day, the information age will catch up to the issue. When it's not so very easy to hide where the money came from bad people will be discouraged from taking anything they can get.



Had my brother and I not been shot we were in the process of writing software in 1980 to do just that.



Ever hear of Linux? You can still be a part of the revolution of information that can very easily get rid of George Walker "Cocaine Happy" Bush's treasonous "way of life".



But if you do decide to be a part of the light, don't brag. George is hunting us. He is very evil. He is very evil. He IS VERY EVIL. And he LIKES to steal from people.



That's why in "the new world order" he built .02% (about 350,000 people) in our nation gratefully accept a wage more than equal to that earned by 99.98% of this nation.



Do you think it's wise or not corrupt that 350,000 people should be given utter economic domination over 300,000,000 people? 2 per 10,000 people HERE are so rich that if they hire people to lie in court any hero cop can be deemed insane, cause after all, it's preponderance of the evidence that confines a man to an insane asylum. Because they can allege insanity of any who refuse their "rule", by a proxy of several hired actors more than compensated for any eventuality if caught, we are under the attack from our own money.



I know several cops from my police department. 1 of these is still working. The rest are deemed insane.

Answer 8

If a lawmaker has the ability to control which laws pass/don't pass he can require people to "contribute" in order to get what they want.