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> If the electorate cares about an issue, you'll see political action. Read the article I linked above and the study it references. That is empirically false.

• thaumasiotes 11y ago
  It's also empirically true. It's very easy to observe votes moving politicians. Without some argument that this issue is governed by a particular special circumstance, your comment has no substance.
  • imtringued 11y ago
    This is quite an interesting argument because except funding nothing prevents us from eliminating crime and poverty. The government is simply not interested in doing these things. They'd rather cater to the needs of their 'sponsors'. I think it's kind of funny that politicans are not interested in their own country.
    • mdpopescu 11y ago
      Why? I'm not interested in my country either, I'm interested in my own household. Why would politicians be any different, given that it's not their country, they're just temporary CEOs? (We know how well the CEO situation works for large companies.) An absolute monarch might be interested in his country, because it's actually his property.