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The party has become nothing more than a vehicle for plutocratic kleptocracy, run on the backs of an army of scary-monster, sex-obsessed, religious freaks who act as shock troops for the money boys. — CounterPunch
But it was also made clear that democracy, beleaguered by politics of violence and kleptocracy or cronyism, would not be welcome. — The New Nation
Basically huge portions of American society became a kleptocracy, and with nobody enforcing existing laws or lending standards to any great extent, it seems like it became socially acceptable to do wrong. — HorsesAss.Org
This is why Harper and Bush support Saudi Arabia's kleptocracy, Egypt's puppet dictatorship, and is why they have installed obedient puppet regimes in Kabul and Bagdad to replace the previous regimes which negated their imperialist orders. — GlobalResearch.ca
Certainly Mexico bears a great deal of the responsibility for what happens in its own country-the years of undemocratic, one party kleptocracy, the ingrained corruption, the lack of economic freedom etc. helped plow a fertile ground for what we are witnessing. — Douglas Farah