Political Corruption: The American Political Theatre

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We don’t feel as though that political corruption has been eliminated from the American political theatre. We say this because corruption is going on not only in the theatre but in the actually real world. If in real life you see corruption then how could you make a movie about about political things and not make it how you see it. In the movie they try to make it seem like Mr.Smith signed off on the land but they actually plagiarized his name and they made the target when they were playing with him. They made him think he was in control but actually they were making the moves without him. The movie took place in the ‘50s and years later things like that is still happening in the political system. Corruption has been the subject of a substantial

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