Changing things from the inside

Has changing things from the inside ever worked?

Jay Carney

A former Obama press secretary, he regularly whitewashes the deeds of Amazon as senior vice president of global corporate affairs. The thing is, he may not have joined Amazon to change it in the first place.

Nick Clegg

Former deputy prime minister of the UK, he joined Facebook "to build bridges between politics and tech."

From https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/ :

Wanda Telakowska

Wanda Telakowska was a Polish cultural activist who joined the Polish Ministry of Culture in 1945. Despite the brutality of the regime, she thought that, from the inside, she could help designers and artists by getting their work printed in Polish factories. They made her write Marxist gibberish and did not do anything she asked.

Trump aides

Mattis, Gary Cohn thought they could limit damage by staying close to Trump. Or so they said.

Victor Alvarez

He opposed total nationalization in Venezuela, but stayed in Chavez's cabinet, even though Chavez was using the police against peaceful protestors. He accomplished nothing.

US bureacracy in the Vietnam era

Officials, even when they thought the wrong moves were being made, did not speak out so that they could save their "effectiveness" for another day.

Marshal Phillippe Petain

The leader of collaborationist Vichy France hated the French Republic, and so welcomed Nazi rule.

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