>If the USA populace elects its officials, why do the representatives act against the populace’s wishes? Here is the basic flow: - Get elected by lying to vot

>If the USA populace elects its officials, why do the representatives act against the populace’s wishes? Here is the basic flow: - Get elected by lying to voters and/or suppressing the vote - Use power to choose your own voters / write laws to suppress voters who are against you - Repeat So in effect, many elected officials can safely ignore constiuent's wishes because either: not enough can / will vote against you or you can use your power to make sure they can't vote against you. Then you have the issue of politicians being given bribes... I mean... lobbying money to do what corporations want.