A short political observation

[womzilla]

It is fairly obvious that a totalitarian government is going to be, inevitably, extremely corrupt.

It's not quite as obvious that a corrupt government is going to tend inevitably towards totalitarianism.

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[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

And in fact, corrupt governments can noodle along for quite a long time without going totalitarian. After all, being totalitarian means being willing to give up convenience to pursue a Big Dream.