"All money corrupts, and big money corrupts bigly." Oliver Bullough, the British investigative journalist and author who wrote this in his book Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back, sharply adapted Lord Acton's famous warning about power: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Bullough's quote was published when Moneyland was released in 2018 and has since become a sharp commentary on how vast wealth corrupts political systems globally.

Cut to 2026, and it can be further extended in the current political situation in India to, "Money corrupts politics, and endless money corrupts democracy." It fits the present political reality with unsettling precision. When a party becomes flush with astronomical funds, money ceases to be merely a tool of election. Instead, it becomes a weapon to purchase opposition MPs and destabilise the opposition completely. If morality erodes as power increases and corruption becomes inevitable when power is total and unchecked, a deadly combination emerges when total power is backed by absolute money power. This flipped version of the original saying suggests that money, especially when concentrated in extreme amounts, can erode morality just as power does.

Money, Power And Political Influence

This is what one has been witnessing for over a month........

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