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They have votes. Politicians do what they say.
by tuatoru 4y ago
They have votes. Politicians do what they say.
- ncmncm 4y agoPoliticians have arranged to be well-insulated from what soccer moms want. Soccer moms, meanwhile, are what we call a "managed population". They vote as they are told to. Not just them, of course. We are living in the world Edward Bernays built, where democracy holds vanishingly little sway as PR machinery reliably generates votes for whatever whoever pays it wants. Sometimes opposing payers compete.