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I despise McConnell, but I think it's just as plausible that he genuinely believes that net neutrality goes against his ideology (free market, low regulation) a
by paulgb 8y ago
I despise McConnell, but I think it's just as plausible that he genuinely believes that net neutrality goes against his ideology (free market, low regulation) and Comcast et. al. make their donations because his ideology futhers their desired outcomes, as opposed to donating to bring him to their side.
- heavenlyblue 8y agoI would assume the problem is that for the consumers, even if they are a larger group - it’s way more expensive to collect the same amount of money to lobby for the opposite. So obviously it’s way easier to hold an extremely narrow point of view because it’s so easy to get campaign money for it.
- educationdata 8y ago$200,000 is a very small amount of money in grassroot crowdfunding. Against net neutrality is not "an extremely narrow point of view".
- enumjorge 8y agoPossibly. But that doesn’t excuse his refusal to have the Senate vote on it.
- uabstraction 8y agoMcConnell has no ideology besides accumulating power.