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* Companies work for their shareholders. * Lobbyists work for their companies. * Politicians work for...us. They're also the one group that if they STOPPED th
by joelrunyon 11y ago
* Companies work for their shareholders.
* Lobbyists work for their companies.
* Politicians work for...us. They're also the one group that if they STOPPED their involvement in the "system" would cause lobbying to be pointless. Instead they fester an "us vs. them" attitude and hope
If I hired you to do a job and you took on a freelance job doing favors for your dinner buddy on work time and started ignoring your day job - you'd get fired so fast it's not even funny. Unfortunately, we don't treat congress members like that.
- afarrell 11y agoIf I hired you to write code and never looked at a single line you wrote[1], but instead held performance reviews based on how well your personal marketing department tweeted... 1: quick, tell me the name of your representative, the name of the last bill they co-sponsored, and a few of the legal concepts that bill dealt with.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoYup, that's a pretty good point. Politicians don't work for us, they work for themselves. Our input is only to vote some of them in, and in aggregate, we vote based on the media impression they themselves orchestrate.