How much meaningful influence do you have on American policy?
There are lots of facets and levels of politics -- being a CCP member kind of necessitates being engaged in some way, probably at the local level for the vast majority of them.
It turns out that "corruption" (or choose your metric) isn't a binary proposition, so the argument, "but the US has corruption too!" kind of misses the point.
There are lots of facets and levels of politics -- being a CCP member kind of necessitates being engaged in some way, probably at the local level for the vast majority of them.