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dicksbro,

Oh Tush! I can only presume you are having a bit of fun at my expense, but OK, I’ll play it straight. :)

Let us begin with the root sentence. “I hate our fucking corrupt government.”

The adjective “corrupt” is a part of speech that modifies the noun “government” by limiting it to a subset of all governments. Thus, there are fewer corrupt governments than there are all governments.

This is why my response to “Are there any others?” is “Of course”.

Now, if the question is to be recontextualized as “Show me a government without corruption”, then we would need to begin a rather extended journey by examining all governments. This is easier said than done. What then is a government? Are we to limit the set to only include those which rule sovereign nations? This would exclude al-Qaeda for example. Now what if those who run al-Qaeda are uncorrupt? Surely then we could with pride point to that group of individuals and say “There! We have found a government which is not corrupt! Let us celebrate.” :rolleyes:

Looking again at the root sentence, Lilith is reacting quite morally and correctly when she expresses her anger and outrage at the coupling of two completely independent agenda, “funding student technologies” and “legalizing slot machines”; effectively defunding a program of clear value if an already rejected revenue source is not approved.

Let us, for the sake of argument, accept that this event established the state government of Florida as corrupt. Note that she hates her “corrupt government” – not her government, not government in general, not that she hates the fact that there will always be more demand for money than there will be money to fund the demand. She does, rightly, object to a corrupt government, and this implies that there is a government that is not corrupt.

No, on balance, I believe that most governments are not corrupt. I also believe that most people believe that to be true. There are very few perfect governments, and my guess is that the root cause of that is because there are very few perfect humans.