Help me get this straight

[BenDover23]

[Jamie (K)]

"Take on" here means to confront or to fight with something. Two boxers or wrestlers take each other on. This is perfectly common usage in the US and the UK.

"Culture of entitlement" means a mentality among the populace that they deserve to get more and more things free from the government. They think they are entitled to get a lot of things without working or paying for them.

If a wound festers, it gets larger, more infected and more inflamed. We sometimes use the word "fester" symbolically to mean that something has become more and more infected. So what the writer is saying is that bribery has gotten worse and worse among the leftists.

[BenDover23]

Thanks , i admit i had no clue about that