It was Madeleine Albright, former US ecretary of State, who first remarked that “Corruption is the cancer of democracy.” It’s one of those statements that become more prophetic as time goes by.

The pathological metaphor gives me the creeps. But if corruption is the cancer, the pork barrel is plainly a cancer cell that has spread to different parts of our political system.

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