> The government writes the laws, the people elect them. Yes I remember when I still believed this. Funny thing is this is demonstrably false, as in you can t

> The government writes the laws, the people elect them. Yes I remember when I still believed this. Funny thing is this is demonstrably false, as in you can try to study the correlation between voter's opinions and legislation (and find virtually no correlation) and the correlation between opinions of the 1% and legislation (orders of magnitude better correlation).