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Trustbusting is one of the most crucial roles of government, and the US government has utterly failed in this duty.

• mrguyorama 3y ago
  The US government willingly gave up this duty by popular vote, through politicians promising it would all "trickle down".
  • hotpotamus 3y ago
    I'd guess Robert Bork had more to do with it than the popular vote. Nixon might have promised him a Supreme Court seat for his other famous historical service, but his nomination was famously shot down on a somewhat bipartisan basis (Biden was the Judiciary Chairman at the time).
    • RickJWagner 3y ago
      The action was vicious enough that the term 'Borked' was coined for it.
      • hotpotamus 3y ago
        If putting it to a full senate vote is vicious, then you might need to find some even stronger words for what happened to a few other nominees.
  • willcipriano 3y ago
    > "When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."[0] You can't blame the voters for this, the institutions are long ago corrupted. [0]https://pnhp.org/news/gilens-and-page-average-citizens-have-little-impact-on-public-policy/ https://pnhp.org/news/gilens-and-page-average-citizens-have-...
• voisin 3y ago
  Canadian government as well. Consolidation has only increased over the last 30 years.
  • red-iron-pine 3y ago
    True across the rest of the world