Port: All the ethics and transparency laws in the world won’t matter if the voters don’t care
Ethics scandals used to end careers. Today, they often barely dent approval ratings. In Rob Port’s latest commentary, he traces how public tolerance for political profiteering has shifted—from the uproar over Billy Carter’s Libya ties in the 1970s to today’s partisan indifference. North Dakota isn’t exempt. State lawmakers recently blocked a bill that would have improved campaign finance transparency, banking on voter apathy. The unsettling question remains: in a democracy where accountability rests with the people, what happens when the people stop caring? Read the full piece at InForum.
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