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The local politics are always going to side with the people with power and money, that's what politics is. The point of deregulation is to lower the influence o
by bcoates 9y ago
The local politics are always going to side with the people with power and money, that's what politics is. The point of deregulation is to lower the influence of the powerful, which is mostly expressed through their iron grip on local politics.
- mcguire 9y agoBecause government is the only avenue to express power, or because deregulation makes power disappear?
- bcoates 9y agoBecause, in practice, governance is positive leverage on power. Rich people are still more powerful than average/poor people in the absence of intensive, high-impact statist government, but the rich people:everyone else power ratio in traditional western governance is long regulation.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> The point of deregulation is to lower the influence of the powerful Except all actual concrete deregulation proposals are backed by powerful interests, and not because it reduces their power. Now, the sales pitch to the public might be about reducing the influence of the powerful, but that's never the actual goal sought by the powerful backers. At best, it'd reallocation of power from one segment of the powerful to another, but more often it's just loosening constraints on the powerful.
- jonbarker 9y agoI agree that politicians typically side with the powerful but I think a good working definition of politics is the rhetoric used by politicians in public and private meetings. This rhetoric can theoretically benefit any group.