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I like this perspective. I hear you. It just seems that the list of candidates (for which we vote) is assembled by corporations with the intent of writing laws
by burnbabyburner 5y ago
I like this perspective. I hear you.
It just seems that the list of candidates (for which we vote) is assembled by corporations with the intent of writing laws that promote their profits (at the expense of the people and other businesses).
I don’t see how we (the people) can vote who gets on the list in the first place. Until that happens I don’t consider it to be true representation.
- shadowgovt 5y agoThe list is decided during the primaries. In the US at least, the biggest problem is that very few Americans seem to understand how significant primaries are; we usually see sub-30% turnout for those elections, but those are the elections where questions like "Trump or Cruz" or "Clinton or Biden" are decided (to say nothing of federal legislators, which are a full branch of government, or state government, which has more day-to-day impact on most Americans than who is President).
- burnbabyburner 5y agoYeah that is a serious problem. Is there a buy-in to participate in the primaries?