We wonder how anyone so strong about their positions would rapidly take a “reversal” without explanation. I don’t accuse people, since I like to find out first why before labeling them a traitor.
It’s vital to realize this with leadership. An Oregon Congresswoman is the latest of many good people to turn bad. It’s because of money. Like everyone else, she was offered money to speak at the DNC. A strong person is strong and resists taking bribes. But a weak person caves to take money. The best tool in making people cave in to an adverse cause is money. When mindset, behavior and social tricks don’t work, there is money (cash and money orders as to avoid leaving paper trails) – if they’re weak enough to take money.
I have been offered bribes several times in my life to change my mind on something I was strong about, but I have never accepted any of them.
On example is my father, who back in the 1990s had offered me a thousand dollars if I sign some papers that would put me in away in a sheltered home facility for developmentally disabled people. My father is a man who’d only offered me money if he was trying to do something he really wanted. Being legally blind, he felt that I was dysfunctional and from the time I was born to the day he died, he wanted very badly for me to be put away in a home.
I had been offered $700.00 by a video company to play a cop in one of those videos used to depict white men as killing black people. I declined the role because it was not something I felt comfortable doing. They though I was holding out for more money and even raised the offer to $1200.00 and a check was made out in my name but I wouldn’t take or endorse it.
I originally found out about the DNC paying people to speak or listen when though some people I had known in my area, and but I turned that down. A lawyer even contacts me to come for an appointment, where I found that I would not be subject to no legal liability if I took on the role.
I’ve also been offered money to take surveys providing my answers were “correct”, but I declined that also.
I’ve seen situations where many people have been offered bribes like I’ve been offered. Some people take bribes and some don’t. I don’t see myself going into politics at any time, but if I were, I would be strong enough to turn down any bribes offered to me. It’s interesting how people misconstrued the slogan “money makes the world go around”.
Most people have heard the phase “Every man has his price”, a phrase that’s common among sales, but it appears more than that. Bribes have been more common to manipulate people to make decisions they would not otherwise do by nature.
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