"The govts hardly bothered to legislate for social change, they were preoccupied with legislation against the people, trade unions & opposition elements, cultural groups, progressive intellectuals, and spending scarce resources on the coercive apparatus."
"This political careerist stratum had achieved such notoriety in their abusive and corrupt use of power that people became immune to scandals and made songs about the more excessive cases....the institutionalization of corruption...." H. Campbell (1980)