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I think the question if the law make sense or not is somehow distracting us from a bigger problem. The big problem I see is that it is perfectly clear that the

I think the question if the law make sense or not is somehow distracting us from a bigger problem. The big problem I see is that it is perfectly clear that the decision factor was money put into political campaign done not by politicians, which are sort of accountable for what they do (they might not just get elected), but by people who simply had enough money. Democracy sort of worked because elected representatives were supposed to make law based on justice and ethics and common interest. Right now law is made because someone was able to pull out enough money to buy particular regulation. There is some democratic ceremony around all this, but this is just a ceremony. The ancient Rome citizens also thought that they have democracy in the times of triumvirate, but this was also a show.

sokoloff 6y ago
Money can't buy you everything in politics. MA had ballot question #2, where the proponents raised an estimated $10M and the opponents raised an estimated $3500. (opponents were out-raised 3000:1) The ballot initiative failed around 55%-45%, despite a massive difference in fundraising (and presumably associated spending).
syshum 6y ago
It is completely false that this Passed purely because they spent alot of money Your belief on that is based on reporting bias, reporters never talk about when an initiative's that went counter to the HUGE amounts of money poured in (for or against), for example the Right to repair in MA which has huge money from all the major auto manufacturers, and an ad campaign claiming that if you voted for right to repair rapists would get your garage codes... It is click bait to talk about how "company X bought regulation" but it is rarely true, even in CA there were a few ballot measures this year that failed even with massive amounts of money being spent on supporting them. Money in politics if often used as a scapegoat to explain away why some issue failed, or some issue succeed with out having to accept the fact that majority disagreed with you, as it often hard to admit that the majority rejects your world view

sokoloff 6y ago

Money can't buy you everything in politics. MA had ballot question #2, where the proponents raised an estimated $10M and the opponents raised an estimated $3500. (opponents were out-raised 3000:1) The ballot initiative failed around 55%-45%, despite a massive difference in fundraising (and presumably associated spending).

syshum 6y ago

It is completely false that this Passed purely because they spent alot of money Your belief on that is based on reporting bias, reporters never talk about when an initiative's that went counter to the HUGE amounts of money poured in (for or against), for example the Right to repair in MA which has huge money from all the major auto manufacturers, and an ad campaign claiming that if you voted for right to repair rapists would get your garage codes... It is click bait to talk about how "company X bought regulation" but it is rarely true, even in CA there were a few ballot measures this year that failed even with massive amounts of money being spent on supporting them. Money in politics if often used as a scapegoat to explain away why some issue failed, or some issue succeed with out having to accept the fact that majority disagreed with you, as it often hard to admit that the majority rejects your world view