> Isn't it the job of the representatives in a representational democracy to have working mechanisms to understand what their constituents' demands are? The ad

> Isn't it the job of the representatives in a representational democracy to have working mechanisms to understand what their constituents' demands are? The advantage big business has is scale. Big business, by definition, has many more stakeholders. This means that big business will be disproportionately represented by the constituents. If those biases weren't made clear, and each constituent's position was taken at face value, then the unified front would appear stronger than it would actually be if each actor were acting without those biases. > Shouldn't they stay true to the promises they made? I'm not sure why you'd want them to. The state of the world is constantly changing and new information continues to flow in. You will be constantly reevaluating your position in the face of new information. A representative will respond to that. Representatives know that some segment of the population honestly believe that they are mind readers and will offer up some examples of how they might try to read the minds of those who buy into that witchcraft to attract their vote, but marketing and reality are quite different.